Book Review: Godfrey's Ghost
23/09/2009 … It may have his Dad’s Army character name in the title, but anyone expecting this biography of Arnold Ridley to provide any insight into the much-loved sitcom…
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22/09/2009 … COMIC Janice Connolly - best known as Mrs Barbara Nice – is returning to Coronation Street for five episodes next month, as Sheila Wheeler.
Deayton's new sex role
...in a movie with Martin Freeman
22/09/2009 … Angus Deayton has landed a role in a new romantic comedy movie, starring The Office’s Martin Freeman.
Please Sir!'s Dennis dies
Denyer also starred in Agony and Dear John
22/09/2009 … Peter Denyer, who played the slow-witted pupil Dennis Dunstable in Sixties sitcom Please Sir!, has died at the age of 62, actors' newspaper The Stage has reported.
'Words were not meant to wound'
Tiernan defends against 'anti-Semitism'
22/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has launched a staunch defence of his comments about Jewish people which he says were not intended maliciously and were ‘taken so far out of context…
© Claudia Wass Funny Women 2009 final
22/09/2009 … The usual – and not entirely unjustified – criticism about Funny Women is that it sets female comedians aside from the rest of the circuit: that it’s a marketing-driving…
BBC: We need to invest in comedy
22/09/2009 … The BBC needs to make more comedy because hard-up commercial broadcasters can’t afford the risk, one of the corporation’s most senior executives has said.