Big Yin, CBE
Oddie, Briers and Dale also honoured
14/06/2003 … Billy Connolly has been made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours.
Sat 14 June 2003
Fri 13 June 2003
Coupling excites America
Advertisers clamour for raunchy remake
13/06/2003 … America's advertising buyers are expecting British import Coupling to be one of the biggest TV hits of the year.
Fishing for laughs
Hall and Wilmot angle for BBC4 show
13/06/2003 … Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot are to make a new fishing show for BBC4.
Thu 12 June 2003
Shark dies after comic's stunt
Prankster could face court action
12/06/2003 … Comedian Guy Venables could be facing court action after a shark he swam with died unexpectedly.
Veteran scriptwriter dies
Merriman remembered for Beyond Our Ken
12/06/2003 … Veteran comedy scriptwriter Eric Merriman has died at the age of 78.
Wed 11 June 2003
Doing his Holmeswork
11/06/2003 … Simon Munnery is working on a one-man radio show debunking the image of iconic characters.
Wrote off
Broadway's Eric and Ern tribute to close
11/06/2003 … The Morecambe and Wise homage The Play What I Wrote is to close on Broadway.
For Rod's sake...
11/06/2003 … Ben Elton is to write a West End musical based on the work of Rod Stewart.