Still Open All Hours kept in business
30/01/2014 … The BBC has commissioned a full run of Still Open All Hours following the success of the Christmas special.
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Thu 30 January 2014
Memoirs of the '7th Python'
Carol Cleveland writes her autobiography
30/01/2014 … Monty Python’s ‘7th member’, Carol Cleveland, is to write her memoirs to coincide with the comedy troupe’s comeback gigs this summer.
Sanjeev Kohli takes on Scottish independence
...but Open All Hours may have scuppered his sitcom
30/01/2014 … Still Game star Sanjeev Kohli is to front a Weekly Wipe-style guide to Scottish independence.
Remembering Bill Hicks, 20 years on
30/01/2014 … THE 20th anniversary of Bill Hicks' death is to be marked with a gig on February 26 where some of his best – and least – known material will be screened, along…
Wed 29 January 2014
2.9m seek a Bad Education online
29/01/2014 … JACK WHITEHALL's sitcom Bad Education has proved a hit on iPlayer, with 2.
'I'm not getting comedians on!'
What Michael McIntyre said of his new talk show
29/01/2014 … Michael McIntyre has said he wont’t have fellow stand-ups on his new BBC One chat show – because he wants to provide the comedy himself.
© BBC/Richard Ansett BBC orders second series of Inside No 9
From Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
29/01/2014 … The BBC has ordered a second series of Inside No 9 – the new comedy from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – before the first has even aired.
'Banned' Bible comedy sells out
The publicity power of a protest...
29/01/2014 … Hardline Christian councillors who campaigned against a Bible-based comedy show have only served to boost its appeal.