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17/07/2006 … TV comedy is being driven by marketing rather than original ideas, John Cleese has claimed.
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17/07/2006 … TV comedy is being driven by marketing rather than original ideas, John Cleese has claimed.
16/07/2006 … Rare Laurel and Hardy recordings lost by the BBC have been unearthed for a new radio documentary.
16/07/2006 … Lee Hurst has flown out to Iraq to entertain the troops – after begging military entertainment bosses to send him.
15/07/2006 … More details have emerged about Armando Iannucci’s long-awaited new TV show, Time Trumpet.
15/07/2006 … Julian Clary is to interview stars of Carry On films and Fawlty Towers for a UKTV Gild Britcom weekend.
14/07/2006 … Veteran Catskills comedian turned actor Red Buttons had died at the age of 87.
13/07/2006 … Patrick McGuinness is to front a new TV show subjecting celebrities to painful ordeals in the name of charity.
13/07/2006 … Eddie Izzard has publicly thrown his support behind Labour amid the funding scandal engulfing the party.
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