Given Arthur chance...
R4 gives Sir Arthur a second series
13/03/2006 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show.
2006 Archives
Mon 13 March 2006
Sat 11 March 2006
MTV forgives Brand
Wayward comic gets a second chance
11/03/2006 … Russell Brand is returning to MTV, four years after being sacked for his junkie lifestyle.
Men are ruining comedy
Weir wants more female TV execs
11/03/2006 … Arabella Weir says TV comedy is rubbish – because too much of it is commissioned by men.
Thu 09 March 2006
The two of us
Comedy duos to examine friendship
09/03/2006 … Five comedy partnership have created a series of short Radio 4 pieces about the nature of friendship.
Feline threatened
Bill Bailey helps save the jaguar
09/03/2006 … Bill Bailey has spent two weeks with the ‘jaguar people’ of Brazil for a new Sky One documentary.
Sadowitz price row
Gigs cancelled over ticket demands
09/03/2006 … Two comedy clubs have pulled gigs by Jerry Sadowitz – because he demanded ticket prices be more than doubled.
Wed 08 March 2006
Pete & Dud: Come Again
08/03/2006 … Theatreland’s necrophilic obsession with dead comics shows no sign of abating.
Phoning it in
08/03/2006 … Mobile phone users will be able to watch – and vote on - clips of unsigned stand-ups as part of a new comedy competition.