Pegg set for Impossible comeback
19/07/2010 … Simon Pegg is poised to appear alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4.
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Mon 19 July 2010
Jokes about Eamonn? Fat chance
Holmes sets the lawyers on the BBC
19/07/2010 … Jokes about Eamonn Holmes’s weight have been dropped from a BBC comedy show after the presenter called in the lawyers, it has been reported.
Sun 18 July 2010
Why I broke up Still Game partnership
18/07/2010 … Still Game star Greg Hemphill has admitted his sudden decision to breaking up his comic partnership with Ford Kiernan was a ‘petulant, impulsive’ move.
Sat 17 July 2010
Alex, old sport...
Horne revives forgotten games for BBC4
17/07/2010 … Alex Horne has made a BBC Four documentary about forgotten sports from history.
Fri 16 July 2010
'I nearly died with Neil Armstrong'
16/07/2010 … At the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, comic Lewis Black said he once had a TV executive reject a comedy show he was working on because it was ‘too funny’How…
Bread's Aveline is dead
16/07/2010 … Gilly Coman, who played Aveline in the Eighties sitcom Bread, has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 50.
Thu 15 July 2010
Worth a plaque...
15/07/2010 … Sixties comedy star Harry Worth is to be honoured by a blue plaque on the house where he was born.
Wed 14 July 2010
O'Neal barred from Canada
Was 24-year-old conviction the reason?
14/07/2010 … Canadian border guards have stopped American comedian Patrice O’Neal from performing at the Montreal comedy festival – apparently because of a statutory rape…