Thu 10 May 2012
C4 Rose to the occasion
Awards for Friday Night Dinner and Black Mirror
10/05/2012 … Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner has been named best sitcom at the Rose d’Or international TV festival, beating Ricky Gervais’s Life’s Too Short.
Repression? That's Sc*tl*nd for you
Liam Mullone wonders whether censoring words for penis is just the tip of the, er, iceberg...
10/05/2012 … My formative years were spent in Edinburgh.
A modern Brittas Empire?
Benidorm creator pens sitcom about chaos-prone spa boss
10/05/2012 … Benidorm creator Derren Litten is to write a new comedy series for Sky Living.
brydon10
10/05/2012 … THE Rob Brydon Show has been commissioned for a third series on BBC Two this summer.
Ben Elton's 'spastic' gaffe
But charity Scope forgives him...
10/05/2012 … Ben Elton has been accused of committing an ‘awful, embarrassing’ gaffe after using the word ‘spastic’ on live TV.
Why is the Fringe censoring free-thinking artists?
Mark Little on the increasing conservatism in comedy
10/05/2012 … Who is squeezing the 'political' life out of the Fringe? Since 1979 I have been performing my solo spoken-word comedy.
© Working Title The World's End, coming in 2013
Completing Pegg/Frost/Wright trilogy
10/05/2012 … Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are to start work on their new comedy movie in September.