Martin downs tools
02/08/2004 … The Office star Martin Freeman has quit the ITV1 sitcom Hardware to pursue more serious roles.
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Mon 02 August 2004
Over and out
02/08/2004 … Will & Grace is likely to end within two years, one of its creators has revealed.
Fri 30 July 2004
Big Yin's big gigs
Connolly to play to 67,000 fans
30/07/2004 … Billy Connolly has announced a run of 18 dates in London this autumn.
Slater gets the pox
30/07/2004 … Christian Slater may have to pull out of the Edinburgh Fringe production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest after contracting chicken pox.
Thu 29 July 2004
Scotch on the rocks
29/07/2004 … Film-makers are planning a remake of the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore! Producers have launched a fundraising drive to find the £400,000 needed to start…
A-ha for Hollywood!
Partridge may head for the movies
29/07/2004 … Steve Coogan is hoping to revive Alan Partridge for a big-budget Hollywood movie.
Wed 28 July 2004
It's homo Simpson
Cartoon favourite to come out the closet
28/07/2004 … One of the regular characters in The Simpsons is to surprise fans by revealing they are gay.
A bronze Bob
28/07/2004 … A statue has been erected to veteran American comic Bob Newhart in Chicago.