Ricky Gervais offered his own US talk show
26/08/2011 … Ricky Gervais has been offered his own late-night US chat show on a major network – but turned it down.
Fri 26 August 2011
ITV boss plans more comedies
'We lost our nerve' admits Fincham
26/08/2011 … ITV is considering a move back into comedy – a genre boss Peter Fincham admits it has neglected.
Alas poor Eric...
Martha McBrier has a tough time on the Fringe
26/08/2011 … Free shows at the Edinburgh Fringe sell themselves.
A well good prize
Win Lee Nelson's series on DVD
26/08/2011 … The first series of Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show has been released on DVD this week – and we have five copies to give away.
'Too heroic' for the Inbetweeners
26/08/2011 … 'Mrs Brown’s Boys is for people who've been in prison since the Seventies’.
2.5m are shown the funny
Ratings upswing for series's live final
26/08/2011 … The live final of Show Me The Funny managed to boost the series’s ratings – although it still fell well short of ITV’s usual viewing figures.
White House tapes turned into comedy
Harry Shearer to play Richard Nixon
26/08/2011 … The Simpsons star Harry Shearer is to play Richard Nixon in a new comedy-drama based on genuine recordings from the White House.