BBC picks up 'Girls'
Corporation snaps up hot US sitcom
07/06/2004 … The BBC has snapped up the rights to a raunchy US sitcom, before most American viewers have even seen it.
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Mon 07 June 2004
Sat 05 June 2004
Going, going, gob...
Spit The Dog fetches £5,000 at auction
05/06/2004 … Bob Carolgees has sold Spit The Dog at auction, netting more than £5,000.
'My work is pap'
05/06/2004 … Lee Evans has confessed that he considers his stand-up as "pap".
Fri 04 June 2004
Shane again
ITV orders second series of Skinner sitcom
04/06/2004 … Frank Skinner’s sitcom Shane has been recommissioned by ITV1.
Have I Got News For U.S.
Comedy news quiz crosses the Atlantic
04/06/2004 … Have I Got News for You is to become the latest British TV format to cross the Atlantic.
'Anti-Scottish aresholes'
BBC pressured over Glasgow sitcom
04/06/2004 … The BBC is coming under pressure to air Scottish sitcom Still Game across the whole country.
Al's out of Hell
Murray evicted from kitchen show
04/06/2004 … Pub Landlord Al Murray has been evicted from Gordon Ramsay’s Hell's Kitchen.
Wed 02 June 2004
Joe Pasquale Offer
02/06/2004 … Chortle readers can save £5 on top-price tickets to see Joe Pasquale in the West End.