Syal's new sitcom
First comedy role since The Kumars
02/05/2008 … Meera Syal is to star in a new BBC Two sitcom, her first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42.
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Fri 02 May 2008
'Nobody will want to be the next Ricky fucking Gervais'
02/05/2008 … Ah, the start of May and in these long spring days, our thoughts turn naturally enough to… the office Christmas party.
Rich goes wild about the West
02/05/2008 … Perrier-winning stand-up Rich Hall is making a 90-minute film about movie Westerns for BBC Four.
It's finalLee happening
02/05/2008 … Stewart Lee has landed a six-part stand-up series for BBC Two.
George Formby in race row
Call to ban his 'offensive' songs
02/05/2008 … A folk club has been accused of racism for playing comic songs by George Formby containing words such as ‘kaffir’ and ‘chink’.
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Wootton lands his own US series
02/05/2008 … Marc Wootton has landed his own American TV series, after Hollywood executives branded him ‘the new Sacha Baron Cohen’.
Thu 01 May 2008
Did Johnny Vegas go too far?
01/05/2008 … A journalist has accued Johnny Vegas of ‘sexual assault’ for his on-stage antics at a gig last Friday.
Coogan joins Iannucci film
01/05/2008 … Steve Coogan and Sopranos star James Gandolfini have signed up for Armando Iannucci’s first feature film.