04/12/2006 … DAVID WALLIAMS has failed to make the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year shortlist for his Channel swim, despite previously being tipped as a favourite.

Lost Chapman comedy found

Tape unearthed after 30 years

02/12/2006 … A long-lost TV pilot starring late Python Graham Chapman is to get a public screening today – 30 years after it was thought to have been destroyed.

Carrott gold

Jasper nets £11m from Millionaire sale

02/12/2006 … Jasper Carrott has landed an £11million windfall for his stake in quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?The comic and his wife Hazel own a share of TV production…

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01/12/2006 … COMICS Lee Mack and Michael McIntyre have been added to the bill of Monday's Royal Variety Performance, which will be broadcast on BBC One on December 12.

Whore-py birthday

The week's trivia round-up

01/12/2006 … Stuff you may have missed reading in the past seven days - lucky you!Matt Lucas bought fiance Kevin McGee a full-size Tardis for his boyfriend Kevin McGee’s birthdayRussell…

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01/12/2006 … THE BORAT MOVIE has been banned by censors in every Arab country except Lebanon.

Five buys Whose Line?

88 US episodes to air from January

30/11/2006 … Channel Five has bought the rights to 88 episodes of the US version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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1,000 acts head for Leicester

30/11/2006 … The Leicester comedy festival has announced its 2007 line-up, with headliners Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Paul Merton.