ITV's 2008 comedy line-up revealed
Soaps, princes and celebs mocked
16/11/2007 … ITV has confirmed the transmission of a uniquely linked pair of shows, airing a comedy set behind the scenes of a soap opera on one channel, while the soap itself…
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Fri 16 November 2007
Thu 15 November 2007
Chris Rock adds more UK dates
15/11/2007 … Chris Rock has added four more dates to his sold-out UK tour next year.
Dan Clark lands BBC3 series
...and America's interested, too
15/11/2007 … Comedian Dan Clark has landed a full series of his show How Not To Live Your Life on BBC Three.
Ross sues over Gervais joke
Sunday Times ‘took gag out of context’
15/11/2007 … Jonathan Ross is taking legal action against the Sunday Times for repeating a Ricky Gervais joke about him.
Wed 14 November 2007
© BBC Langham out early
14/11/2007 … Chris Langham was released from jail on Wednesday night after winning a new appeal against his 10-month prison sentence for downloading child pornography.
Tue 13 November 2007
Have a drink, for Pete's sake
Fans to mark Cook's 70th birthday
13/11/2007 … Fans of Peter Cook are to celebrate his birthday with ‘an unconventional drinking orgy’ at the venue where his groundbreaking Establishment Club once stood.
Brand: 'I smuggled heroin up my arse'
13/11/2007 … Russell Brand has revealed that he used to smuggle heroin from Britain to Ibiza, with the drug stashed up his bum.
Mon 12 November 2007
ITV reveals its new Saturday Live
12/11/2007 … The full line-up has been announced for ITV’s tribute to the influential Saturday Live shows of the Eighties.