Manford slams BBC censors
...and walks into a row over impartiality
15/09/2010 … Jason Manford has attacked the BBC for editing out comments about the government treatment of soldiers that he made at the Help For Heroes concert.
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Wed 15 September 2010
Tue 14 September 2010
McIntyre: What made me a successful comic
...and the jealousy that sparks
14/09/2010 … Michael McIntyre says he’s not sure if he’d have made it as a comedian if his father had still been alive.
They do try, bless 'em
14/09/2010 … It may not come as a huge surprise, but Jim Davidson has admitted that he’s no fan of female comedians.
The In crowd
Inbetweeners bring a record 2.6m to E4
14/09/2010 … The first episode of the new series of The Inbetweeners was seen by 2.
© CBS Bang goes that script...
Sitcom hastily rewritten as star injured
14/09/2010 … American sitcom the Big Bang Theory has been thrown into chaos after star Kaley Cuoco broke her leg in a horse-riding accident.
A better class of punter
Prince Harry goes to Gervais gig
14/09/2010 … Prince Harry turned up to Ricky Gervais’s latest stand-up gig – and asked for an autograph for the Queen.
Mon 13 September 2010
Lenny hits the road
First tour in 4 years (but will he stay at Premier Inns?)
13/09/2010 … Lenny Henry is to embark on his first major tour in four years in the spring.
Is he a has-Bean?
Plan to revive Atkinson's buffoon
13/09/2010 … Mr Bean could return to TV screens … as a pensioner in an old folks’ home.