Cinema scope
C4 appoints first film comedy chief
13/02/2003 … Channel 4 has appointed its first head of film comedy.
Thu 13 February 2003
Wed 12 February 2003
Steve gets 'Around'
Coogan stars in $100m Jules Verne epic
12/02/2003 … Steve Coogan is to play Phileas Fogg in a new film version of Around The World In Eighty Days.
Tue 11 February 2003
Another Fringe benefit...
New fundraiser to aid Gilded Balloon
11/02/2003 … Charlotte Church's movie debut is to be unveiled at the Aspen comedy festival later this month.
Another Fringe benefit...
New fundraiser to aid Gilded Balloon
11/02/2003 … Sean Hughes, Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran will all appear in a second benefit in aid of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon.
Three of the best
Carr, Jones, Fielding scoop Time Out awards
11/02/2003 … Milton Jones, Jimmy Carr and Noel Fielding have all won Time Out Comedy Awards.
Idle riches
11/02/2003 … Eric Idle is to release a new comedy CD parodying travel documentaries.
Mon 10 February 2003
Joly unwelcome
10/02/2003 … Dom Joly has been barred from entering America to film a US version of Trigger Happy TV.
Hello, Pepys
10/02/2003 … Steve Coogan is to star as Samuel Pepys in a BBC drama about the 17th century diarist.