Sun 22 February 2015
'It's appalling to censor writer over famine sitcom'
Channel 4 exec hits back at protesters
22/02/2015 … Channel 4's head of comedy has mounted a robust defence of the forthcoming comedy script set in the Irish famine – saying attempts to gag the writer are 'appalling'.
Fri 20 February 2015
Phoenix Nights Live raises £5m
20/02/2015 … THE Phoenix Nights live shows raised about £5million for Comic Relief, Paddy McGuinness has revealed.
Rik Mayall's 'last great character'
20/02/2015 … An audio comedy written by Rik Mayall is to be broadcast for the first time on what would have been the comedian's 57th birthday.
© Toby Hancock/Rex Rowan Atkinson to play Maigret
French detective revived for two ITV films
20/02/2015 … Rowan Atkinson is to play French detective Jules Maigret in two two-hour films for ITV.
© funkypancake.com Nigel Havers joins BBC One's Stop⁄Start
20/02/2015 … Nigel Havers has joined the cast of BBC One sitcom pilot Stop/Start.