Dave Gorman quits NOTW column
...then the paper closes anyway
07/07/2011 … Dave Gorman resigned from his column with the News Of The World before the paper's closure was announced this afternoon.
Thu 07 July 2011
TV giant seeks sitcoms
Talkback Thames names first head of scripted comedy
07/07/2011 … Talkback Thames – the TV giant behind The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and QI – has appointed its first head of scripted comedy.
© Kraft Dawn French to tour... with a puppet
Plan to replace Jennifer Saunders
07/07/2011 … Dawn French wants to go on tour – but with a life-sized puppet in place of Jennifer Saunders.
Wed 06 July 2011
Come into the light....
John Fleming has some illuminating advice for new comedians
06/07/2011 … The stage.
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06/07/2011 … CHANNEL 4 has brought the rights to John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show – with the comic introducing Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Eugene Mirman, Mary Lynn Rajskub…
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06/07/2011 … JAMES MULLINGER has won Chortle's £75 for the best Correspondents article in June for his piece on meeting Jerry Seinfeld.
TV comedy has lost its flavour
Theo Weedon bemoans bland formats – and bland comedians
06/07/2011 … Comedy in the UK has become a monster.