Vic Reeves to appear in Inspector George Gently | A tight 5: October 30

Vic Reeves to appear in Inspector George Gently

A tight 5: October 30

VIC REEVES is to appear in BBC One drama Inspector George Gently. The comic, billed under his real name Jim Moir, will play a shady pawnbroker when the series returns early in the new year.

TOM BINNS has won the best sitcom pilot at the Cofilmic comedy film festival in Manchester for his mockumentary about his hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury. This Glorious Monster’s Coming Out Clown was named best sketch. Here are the films:

SUNDAY NIGHT at the Palladium will be returning for a second series, ITV has confirmed to Chortle. There is no news yet on when the variety show will be taped, or of the guests involved. Comics who appeared on the first series included Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall, Rob Brydon and Jason Manford.

AMERICAN comic Katt Williams has another legal woe after he and Death Row Records founder Marion ‘Suge’ Knight were charged with robbery. They are accused of taking a paparazzo's camera in Beverly Hills last month. Williams, who was arrested at a courthouse when he was making an appearance over a separate assault case. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

JOAN RIVERS’ daughter Melissa has hired a New York law firm to investigate the circumstances behind her mother's death. However the company declined to say whether the family intended to file a law suit against Manhattan's Yorkville Endoscopy, where the comedian was being treated when she stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest.

Published: 30 Oct 2014

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