US writers' strike starts
05/11/2007 … Hollywood writers have voted to go on an indefinite strike, which will hit comedy shows the hardest.
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05/11/2007 … Hollywood writers have voted to go on an indefinite strike, which will hit comedy shows the hardest.
04/11/2007 … ITV2 has commissioned a pilot from Victorian sketch duo The Congress Of Oddities.
04/11/2007 … Spaced director Edgar Wright has launched a furious attack on the TV executives remaking the comedy for American audiences.
02/11/2007 … Sarah Silverman is working on the next series of her US show with writers who ‘love farting, shitting, and simulating gay sex’.
02/11/2007 … BBC Three has commissioned a 60-minute comedy-drama pilot about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing a flat.
02/11/2007 … America’s NBC network is to drop its DotComedy website.
01/11/2007 … The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan is to set up his own production company to develop new comedies.
01/11/2007 … Still Game, the sitcom about two Glasgow pensioners, has been nominated for four Scottish Baftas.
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