By Royle appointment
America has second crack at Jim
12/02/2004 … America's ABC network has given the official green light to remakes of British sitcoms The Royle Family and The Savages.
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Thu 12 February 2004
Who-hoo! Simpsons movie!
Producer: 'It's finally a reality'
12/02/2004 … Work has started on story ideas for The Simpsons movie, one of its producers has revealed.
A legendary honour
Holy Grail named best British film ever
12/02/2004 … Monty Python and The Holy Grail has been conclusively voted the best British film of all time.
Wed 11 February 2004
Four in five comedies fail
But BBC2 boss says £80m is money well spent
11/02/2004 … BBC2 controller Jane Root has admitted that four out of five new TV comedies fail.
Badly drawn girls
11/02/2004 … Channel 4 is planning an British version of South Park, set in a bleak area of South London The 13-part animated series Streatham Hill will revolve around hree…
Oooh, Betty!
R4's tribute to comic star Marsden
11/02/2004 … Radio 4 is to pay tribute to Round The Horne star Betty Marsden next month.
Tue 10 February 2004
A little inappropriate...
C4 rapped for making kids swear
10/02/2004 … Channel 4 has been rapped by broadcasting watchdogs for makng children to swear in its Little Friends comedy show.
Going ape
Addison's show transfers to Radio 4
10/02/2004 … Chris Addison's Edinburgh show The Ape That Got Lucky is transferring to Radio 4.