Behind the scenes on BBC One's Big Top
15/11/2009 … Making a big studio-audience sitcom these days can be something of a highwire act – get the delicate balance right and the rewards are huge, but get it wrong everyone…
In honour of star Wendy Richard
15/11/2009 … Are You Being Served? store Grace Brothers is to be recreated in tribute to the sitcom’s star Wendy Richard.
15/11/2009 … THE pub used in Last of the Summer Wine – The White Horse near Holmfirth, West Yorkshire – is up for sale, with a £70,000 price tag.
15/11/2009 … Peter Kay is to return to stand-up after more than five years away.
15/11/2009 … Australian Richard Brophy offers simple, unchallenging stand-up that entertains, though lacks ambition to do more than press the buttons.
15/11/2009 … As soon as Matt Green takes to the stage, you know he has to immediately address his looks – young, weedy and whiter than the BNP’s mailing list – so breaks…
15/11/2009 … Relative newcomer Eric Lampaert delivers one of those Russell Brand-inspired over-exaggerated performances so beloved of yoof-TV casting agents.
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