See Steve Coogan as a porn baron
13/11/2012 … Steve Coogan’s film about London porn baron Paul Raymond has been renamed The Look Of Love.
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Tue 13 November 2012
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Kevin Bridges sets a record for DVD signing
13/11/2012 … Kevin Bridges has set a record for DVD signings after nearly 1,000 fans flocked to see him in a Glasgow store on Saturday.
Is the funny business in decline?
Promoters and comics discuss the 'crisis'
13/11/2012 … Comedy clubs are struggling to find audiences, despite the perception that Britain is enjoying is a boom time for stand-up, a meeting of London circuit luminaries…
© Matt Crossick/PA John Thomson makes stand-up return
13/11/2012 … John Thomson is making a return to stand-up.
© BBC Do you think that's wise, sir?
Plans for Dad's Army film – with female Mainwaring
13/11/2012 … Moves are afoot to make a movie version of Dad’s Army – featuring a female Captain Mainwaring.
Omnishambles is word of the year
13/11/2012 … ‘Omnishambles’ – the word created by The Thick Of It – has been named ‘word of the year’ by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Mon 12 November 2012
John Bishop brings Panto! to ITV
12/11/2012 … John Bishop is to star in a Christmas comedy-drama for ITV, based around a pantomime.
Arrested for causing offence
12/11/2012 … Civil liberties groups have warned of a further erosion of free speech after police arrested a teenager for allegedly posting an image of a burning remembrance poppy…