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America remakes another UK sitcom
03/06/2008 … Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall is to star in a US remake of the Joanna Lumley sitcom Sensitive Skin.
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Tue 03 June 2008
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New sitcom is Nye
03/06/2008 … Men Behaving Badly writer SimonNye is working on a new ITV1 comedy, based around a teenager’s video diary.
Mon 02 June 2008
In Malc's memory
02/06/2008 … A new award will be handed out to the most original comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, in honour of the late Malcolm Hardee.
The £7,349 Fringe show
Stanhopes protest at Comedy Festival branding
02/06/2008 … Controversial US stand-up Doug Stanhope is playing a one-off show at the Edinburgh Fringe – to an audience of just one person who will have paid £7,349 (£7,348…
Sun 01 June 2008
Sandler's stand-up movie
01/06/2008 … Adam Sandler is making a new Hollywood comedy – about stand-up comics.
Sat 31 May 2008
Rutle And Hum
31/05/2008 … Musical satirist Neil Innes is to be the subject of a new documentary film, The Seventh Python.
Ponder for longer
C4 orders more Russell Brand shows
31/05/2008 … Russell Brand has landed a second series of his Channel 4 stand-up show Ponderland, despite disappointing ratings for the first run.
Fri 30 May 2008
Flat cow!
30/05/2008 … ‘I've been told off by the media for not being cutting edge… I take it as a compliment, really.