Radio first for Skinner
10/03/2009 … Frank Skinner is to present his first radio show, after signing a deal with Absolute Radio.
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Tue 10 March 2009
Mon 09 March 2009
Komedia stuggles with debt
Financial woes hit Brighton venue
09/03/2009 … Brighton comedy venue Komedia is battling to clear debts of more than £300,000.
© BBC Pulling in a new audience
US remake for Sharon Horgan's sitcom
09/03/2009 … Sharon Horgan’s comedy Pulling may have been axed by BBC Three – but it might have found a new home across the Atlantic.
Australian TV snaps up Russell Brand
Should we have a 'big down under' pun here?
09/03/2009 … Australian TV viewers are about to be introduced to Russell Brand, after the Seven network snapped up the rights to his Channel 4 series Ponderland.
© BBC Corden: Other comics resent us
09/03/2009 … James Corden says he receives the cold shoulder from other comedians who resent his overnight success.
Sat 07 March 2009
© HBO Gervais says no more Extras
... despite pleas of Hollywood A-listers
07/03/2009 … Ricky Gervais has said he will never bring back Extras, despite a catalogue of Hollywood stars clambering for roles.
Fri 06 March 2009
Playwrights' BBC sitcom commission
Village comedy scripts ordered
06/03/2009 … Playwrights Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood have been commissioned to write a BBC One sitcom set in a sleepy County Durham hamlet.
© Universal Studios 'My willy done a burp...'
06/03/2009 … ‘A funny woman doesn’t attract men… she intimidates them,’ Lynne Parker of Funny Women, which aims to promote female stand-ups.