BBC should ignore its psychotic critics
23/09/2009 … Channel 4’s comedy chief has urged the BBC to take more risks in comedy, and ignore the ‘psychotic’ anti-corporation bias of newspapers such as the Daily Mail.
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23/09/2009 … Channel 4’s comedy chief has urged the BBC to take more risks in comedy, and ignore the ‘psychotic’ anti-corporation bias of newspapers such as the Daily Mail.
23/09/2009 … Simon Pegg has said that he will never return to Spaced.
23/09/2009 … Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s sketch show has been relegated to BBC Two because of poor ratings.
23/09/2009 … Steve Coogan has joined the cast of buddy cop film The Other Guys.
22/09/2009 … Angus Deayton has landed a role in a new romantic comedy movie, starring The Office’s Martin Freeman.
22/09/2009 … Peter Denyer, who played the slow-witted pupil Dennis Dunstable in Sixties sitcom Please Sir!, has died at the age of 62, actors' newspaper The Stage has reported.
22/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has launched a staunch defence of his comments about Jewish people which he says were not intended maliciously and were ‘taken so far out of context…
22/09/2009 … The BBC needs to make more comedy because hard-up commercial broadcasters can’t afford the risk, one of the corporation’s most senior executives has said.
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