Fri 25 April 2014
'Mrs Doyle' joins EastEnders
25/04/2014 … PAULINE McLYNNE, best known as Father Ted's Mrs Doyle, is joining the cast of EastEnders.
Peter Serafinowicz joins Miranda Hart movie
Alongside Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham
25/04/2014 … Peter Serafinowicz has joined the cast of Miranda Hart’s first Hollywood movie, Spy.
'It's just a stupid joke'
Joan Rivers resists calls to apologise to kidnap victims
25/04/2014 … Joan Rivers is resisting calls to apologise for a joke she made about women held captive and abused for years in Cleveland.
Thu 24 April 2014
Python gig to air at 450 UK cinemas
24/04/2014 … The Last Night Of The Pythons gig at London’s O2 Arena is to be broadcast to 1,500 cinemas around the world.
Louis CK 'funniest man alive'
24/04/2014 … AMERICAN GQ magazine has named Louis CK the funniest person alive, just ahead of Amy Schumer.
Wed 23 April 2014
TV review: Derek
Julian Hall on the return of Ricky Gervais' docu-sitcom
23/04/2014 … Broad Hill care home is an idyll by comparison to some residences for the elderly, but in the second season of this docu-sitcom Ricky Gervais sharpens the enemy…
© BBC Book deal for David Mitchell
Observer columns and more to be published in November
23/04/2014 … David Mitchell has signed a book deal to release his Observer columns and other, new material in time for Christmas.