Where there's a hit, there's a writ
New Girl isn't so new, claims plagiarism lawsuit
18/01/2014 … Two screenwriters have launched a lawsuit claiming the hit American sitcom New Girl is a rip-off from a pilot they developed.
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Sat 18 January 2014
Monahan takes an early bath...
VIDEO: Comic Patrick out of ITV's Splash!
18/01/2014 … Patrick Monahan failed to make it through to the semi-finals of ITV diving show Splash! tonight, despite impressing judges with his bravery.
Fri 17 January 2014
Think You're Funny? Then enter this...
17/01/2014 … APPLICATIONS have opened for this year;'s So You Think You're Funny competition for new comedians.
'I was a comedy armed robber'
17/01/2014 … • 'I don’t know how to write jokes and I don’t have punchlines.
For Felix...
Charity foundation set up in Dexter's name
17/01/2014 … A new foundation has been set up in memory of Felix Dexter, who died in October at the age of 52.
Thu 16 January 2014
'Anchorman as an astronaut'
New sitcom pilot for Will Ferrell
16/01/2014 … Will Ferrell is set to make a new sitcom, pitched as ‘Anchorman as an astronaut’.
Cancer claims Roger Lloyd Pack
Star of Only Fools and Vicar Of Dibley was 69
16/01/2014 … Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, has died at the age of 69.
How nurses don't get humour
- and why that could affect healthcare
16/01/2014 … Nurses are failing to use humour – or even recognise when their own patients are using it – even though it means they are missing vital ways to communicate,…