Have I got sexism for you
13/05/2008 … Have I Got News For You has been accused of ‘disgraceful’ sexism.
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Tue 13 May 2008
McSpaced bites the dust?
13/05/2008 … The US version of Spaced has been axed, according to internet reports.
Mon 12 May 2008
Radio 4 comedy programming attacked
12/05/2008 … Radio 4’s comedy commissioning has been branded a creative ‘cul-de-sac’ – by the former head of BBC’s own radio entertainment department.
Mirza, she wrote...
Shazia named columnist of the year
12/05/2008 … Shazia Mirza has been named magazine columnist of the year for her fortnightly articles in New Statesman magazine.
© Ellis O'Brien An unsound performance
12/05/2008 … More than 100 people walked out of a Jimmy Carr gig over the weekend because they couldn’t hear the gags.
Sun 11 May 2008
Kay does Porridge?
Stage version of sitcom in the works
11/05/2008 … Peter Kay could be starring in a new stage version of Porridge next year.
Funny foreigners...
BBC pilots multicultural sitcom
11/05/2008 … Omid Djalili and Stephen K Amos are to star in a pilot episode of a new multicultural BBC Two sitcom.
'Shaun' pub to be demolished
Zombie location will become flats
11/05/2008 … The London pub where Simon Pegg fought his last stand against an army of zombies in Shaun Of The Dead is to be turned into a block of flats.