Bird spreads his wings
Panel show for Inbetweeners star
15/07/2009 … Inbetweeners star Simon Bird is to host his own panel show.
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Wed 15 July 2009
At it like rabbits...
Russell Brand to play Easter Bunny
15/07/2009 … Russell Brand may be used to playing wild lotharios, but he has just landed his most unlikely role yet – as the Easter Bunny.
Steptoe En Zoon
Dutch to remake sitcom classic
15/07/2009 … Steptoe And Son is to return to TV – but in Dutch.
Tue 14 July 2009
Russia censors South Park
14/07/2009 … Russian TV has cut an episode of South Park that portrayed Vladimir Putin as a desperate leader of a bankrupt nation.
Brand to host MTV awards again
...despite last year's controversy
14/07/2009 … Russell Brand has been invited to host this year's MTV Video Music Awards – despite his controversial comments last year.
Eric Morecambe: The theme pub
14/07/2009 … A new pub is to be opened, themed entirely around Eric Morecambe.
Sex sells...
New TV show mixes stand-up and nudity
14/07/2009 … America’s Showtime channel has come up with a new way of presenting stand-up, with a show called Live Nude Comedy.
© Apex Publishing Writer Powell dies
Creator of Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour
14/07/2009 … Prolific sitcom writer Vince Powell, whose credits include Bless This House, Mind Your Language and Never The Twain, has died at the age of 80.