Skinner and Mack to travel the world
09/07/2009 … Frank Skinner and Lee Mack are to retrace the steps of Phileas Fogg – and Michael Palin – in going round the world in 80 days.
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Thu 09 July 2009
Seinfeld's new ad camapign
...for a modest Aussie building society
09/07/2009 … The last time Jerry Seinfeld was persuaded to make an advert, Microsoft paid him $10million for a campaign that was almost universally panned.
Wed 08 July 2009
Another Smack?
08/07/2009 … Smack the Pony stars Doon Mackichan, Sally Phillips and Fiona Allen are to reunite for a new TV comedy.
Wood's got Talent
08/07/2009 … Victoria Wood is to direct a new version of her comedy play Talent in London this autumn.
Trailer banned over oral sex gags
08/07/2009 … A trailer for the Hollywood comedy I Love You Man has been banned because of its repeated references to oral sex.
Another series? Deal
08/07/2009 … The BBC has commissioned a sixth season of Johnny Vegas’s sitcom Ideal, writer Graham Duff has revealed.
Ambassador calls for Bruno protests
Fury at 'cheap' shots against Austria
08/07/2009 … Austria’s new ambassador to Britain has called for protests against Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno film over the way it portrays his nation.
Tue 07 July 2009
Look Who's in St Trinian's
07/07/2009 … David Tennant and Sarah Harding have joined the cast of the new St.