Get the Rocks off
01/10/2009 … Channel Five has dropped Tina Fey’s acclaimed sitcom 30 Rock because of poor viewing figures.
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Thu 01 October 2009
Eddie's in the doc
New film about Izzard's rise to fame
01/10/2009 … A documentary movie about Eddie Izzard’s rise to fame, made by an ex-girlfriend, is to have its first public screening in London this weekend.
Merton gets the silent treatment
More documentaries on early films
01/10/2009 … Paul Merton is working on two new documentaries inspired by his love of silent comedies.
Wed 30 September 2009
A sitcom about a sitcom
Matt LeBlanc stars in transatlantic comedy
30/09/2009 … The fraught business of taking a British comedy hit across the Atlantic is itself to become the subject of a new sitcom.
Never a Dahl moment
Minchin's Matilda musical for the RSC
30/09/2009 … Tim Minchin is writing a musical version of Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Funny Guy
30/09/2009 … Radio 4’s often heavyweight Afternoon Play is being given over to sketch group the Penny Dreadfuls for a spoof history of Guy Fawkes.
© ABC Comedy makes a comeback
30/09/2009 … Comedy has made a comeback on American TV, with eight half-hour sitcoms in the top 20 shows last week, the first of the new autumn season.
Tue 29 September 2009
Radio 4 pilot for Richardson
Panel show about comic's 'strong ideas'
29/09/2009 … Jon Richardson is being lined up to host a new panel show for Radio 4.