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.
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Tue 05 May 2009
'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.
Pete Doherty signs up to web comedy
...as does Libertines bandmate Carl Barat
05/05/2009 … Pete Doherty and his former Libertines bandmate Carl Barat have signed up to a new internet sitcom about the music business.
McGowan: Beeb don't want me any more
Plans for Big Impression comeback thwarted
05/05/2009 … Alistair McGowan says the BBC has crushed his hopes of making a TV comeback.
Mon 04 May 2009
© C4 David Mitchell in news quiz pilot
Comics asked to separate fact from fiction
04/05/2009 … David Mitchell has been working on new topical TV panel show from the makers of Have I Got News For You.
© HBO Little Britain movie forges ahead
Walliams and Lucas finish script
04/05/2009 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have finished the script for their planned Little Britain movie.
Sun 03 May 2009
Comics held over Vatican stunt
5ft blimp flown over Papal state
03/05/2009 … Two Australian comedians have been questioned by Italian police after flying a blimp over the Vatican – defying the city state’s no-fly zone.