Partridge decision 'expected soon'
08/02/2010 … Steve Coogan expects a decision this month on whether Alan Partridge will be making it to the movie screens.
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Mon 08 February 2010
Another gong for Ricky Gervais
Peter Ustinov award for comedy
08/02/2010 … Ricky Gervais is to receive yet another accolade for his mantelpiece: the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award.
Fri 05 February 2010
Persuasionists audience halves
05/02/2010 … The audience for ad agency sitcom The Persuasionists has plummeted by almost half after the BBC shunted it to a graveyard slot.
Salmon à la Irn-Bru
05/02/2010 … ‘Living with a comic is kinda like having a cobra as a pet.
Thu 04 February 2010
Surreal sitcom for BBC Three
04/02/2010 … BBC Three is to broadcast a pilot episode of an absurdist comedy, about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy.
BBC gives up on Persuasionists
Sitcom shunted to graveyard slot
04/02/2010 … The BBC says it has shunted its ad-agency sitcom The Persuasionists to a graveyard slot to make room for something more ‘mainstream’ in primetime.
Wed 03 February 2010
'Unknown' comic to play the O2
03/02/2010 … A relatively unknown British comedian is attempting to sell out London’s vast O2 Arena.
'Spunky and spiky’
Fry raves about comics' protest song
03/02/2010 … Stephen Fry has raved about a protest song by comedians Liam Mullone and Hils Barker that dubs Lord Mandelson a ‘jumped-up little psycho’ .