
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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03/02/2010 … Former Coronation Street star Bruce Jones is hoping to star in a new TV comedy based on spoof X Factor contestants.
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.
Jo Brand's NHS sitcom recommissioned
03/02/2010 … Jo Brand’s dark medical comedy Getting On is to return to BBC Four.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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