Sitcom for ex-soap stars
03/02/2010 … Former Coronation Street star Bruce Jones is hoping to star in a new TV comedy based on spoof X Factor contestants.
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Wed 03 February 2010
Look who's dancing!
BBC unveils Let's Dance comedians
03/02/2010 … Katy Brand, Jenny Éclair and Shappi Khorsandi are to take to the dancefloor in the latest BBC dancing show.
Getting On with a new series
Jo Brand's NHS sitcom recommissioned
03/02/2010 … Jo Brand’s dark medical comedy Getting On is to return to BBC Four.
Tue 02 February 2010
Oscar nod for In The Loop
Best adapted screenplay nomination
02/02/2010 … The writers of In The Loop – the movie spin-off from political satire The Thick Of It – have been nominated for an Oscar.
Comics? Lock 'em up
New panel show isolates comedians from the world
02/02/2010 … Frank Skinner, Ed Byrne and Marcus Brigstocke have all agreed to be locked away for days as part of a new BBC Two panel game.
Mitchell And Webb Look again
Fourth series shoots this week
02/02/2010 … Filming starts tomorrow on the fourth series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, after it was recommissioned by BBC Two.
Mon 01 February 2010
Flanimal heist?
12,000 Gervais books go missing
01/02/2010 … More than 12,000 copies of Ricky Gervais’s Flanimals pop-up book have gone missing.
Brent’s back!
Gervais plans appearance in US Office
01/02/2010 … David Brent is set to appear in the US version of The Office, Ricky Gervais has hinted.