Thu 22 May 2008
Sketch troupe land web deal
First internet venture for Talkback Thames
22/05/2008 … Sketch group Navelgazing – which includes The Office’s Jamie Deeks and Ewen MacIntosh – has signed a two-year deal to develop new comedy for the internet.
Getting into comedy college
22/05/2008 … The BBC has announced the up-and-coming writers who will take part in its new College of Comedy training scheme.
Wed 21 May 2008
saunders21
21/05/2008 … JENNIFER SAUNDERS has been added to the line-up for the TV Comedy Forum industry conference in September.
Rock on, Nigel
Spinal Tap star talks Stonehenge
21/05/2008 … Christopher Guest has reprised his Spinal Tap character Nigel Tufnel to promote a new series about Stonehenge.
Frog & Bucket & Spade
Manchester club plans new venue
21/05/2008 … The Frog And Bucket comedy club is set to open its first venue outside Manchester.
© BBC Maybe Tate didn't win, after all
Another twist in the British Comedy Award saga
21/05/2008 … Catherine Tate may NOT have been the rightful winner of the British Comedy Award at the centre of a vote-rigging scandal after all, the show’s producers have claimed.