Profits slump at Jongleurs
09/02/2005 … Half-year profits at Jongleurs owner Regent Inns have fallen 76 per cent.
Wed 09 February 2005
House of fun
Comics dominate Celeb Fame Academy
09/02/2005 … Al Murray, Adrian Edmondson, Jenny Eclair and impressionist Jon Culshaw are to feature in a new version of Celebrity Fame Academy.
Together in Spam...
Pythons reunite to back musical
09/02/2005 … All the surviving members of Monty Python are to reunite to support Eric Idle’s new musical Spamalot.
Tue 08 February 2005
You can't say 'pikey'
08/02/2005 … Producers of Radio 4 comedy quiz The 99p Challenge have been rapped for their use of the word ‘pikey’.
On another planet
08/02/2005 … Bill Bailey has joined the cast of the Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy movie.
Mon 07 February 2005
Holy inapproriate
Rowan steps up religious law fight
07/02/2005 … Rowan Atkinson has renewed his call for the government to abandon plans to make inciting religious hatred a crime.
Sun 06 February 2005
Another Peep
06/02/2005 … Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of the award-winning Peep Show.
Bad words...
TV watchdog apologises to comic
06/02/2005 … TV watchdogs have taken the possibly unprecedented step of apologising to a comedian they criticised.