Lucas and Walliams revive Rock Profiles
06/05/2009 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have recorded six new Rock Profiles sketches, nine years after the TV series ended.
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Wed 06 May 2009
Adams's unfinished novel heads to R4
...adapted by the writer of Spice World
06/05/2009 … Douglas Adams’s unfinished Dirk Gently novel is to be adapted for Radio 4.
Tue 05 May 2009
Dom DeLuise dies
05/05/2009 … Veteran American comedian Dom DeLuise has died at the age of 75.
Radio sitcom for McGowan
Consumer watchdog comedy in the works
05/05/2009 … Alistair McGowan has record a sitcom pilot based around a consumer watchdog radio show.
Toronto gets a British comedy gala
05/05/2009 … John Cleese is to host a British comedy gala at the Toronto’s new Just For Laughs comedy festival.
Fringe Sunday cancelled
Recession hits festival's biggest event
05/05/2009 … Edinburgh’s free Fringe Sunday event has been axed after organisers failed to find a headline sponsor.
'There's a lot of dross in there'
Robert Lyndsay derides My Family scripts
05/05/2009 … My Family star Robert Lyndsay has admitted that 90 per cent of his long-running sitcom isn’t that good.
© Comedy Central Oliver lands US sitcom role
...as does Peep Show's Big Suze
05/05/2009 … John Oliver is set for even more exposure in America – after landing a role on a prime-time network sitcom.