New Year sitcoms score big ratings
Success for Miranda and Mrs Brown
02/01/2013 … The New Year’s Day editions of Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys scored huge ratings for BBC One.
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Wed 02 January 2013
A Big Fat row over nothing?
Mail campaign generates 150 complaints
02/01/2013 … The Daily Mail’s campaign against Channel 4‘s Big Fat Quiz of the Year has had only limited success.
Comedy and race...
Comic makes documentary about 'boy racers'
02/01/2013 … Stand-up Matt Rudge has made a documentary about the super-wealthy young Arab men who allegedly turn the well-heeled streets of Knightsbridge into a dangerous racetrack.
Tue 01 January 2013
Mock The Week is 'too aggressive'
01/01/2013 … Rory Bremner has claimed Mock the Week is too aggressive and too disrespectful to some of the comedians who appear on it .
Film stars...
Our first £200 video winner named
01/01/2013 … Milo McCabe and Toby Williams have won the first £200 prize in Chortle’s monthly video competition.
Sat 29 December 2012
Katt 'puts his children at risk'
Drug and gun arrest for Williams
29/12/2012 … American comedian Katt Williams has been arrested for allegedly endangering four of his children.
OBEs for Jeremy Lloyd and Nica Burns
Services to comedy and theatre
29/12/2012 … Sitcom writer Jeremy Lloyd and Edinburgh Comedy Awards producer Nica Burns have both been awarded OBEs in the New Year honours.
Fri 28 December 2012
XS makes an Xit
Manchester club to leave its area after 15 years
28/12/2012 … Manchester’s XS Malarkey comedy club is moving out of the neighbourhood where it began 15 years ago.