Mike Reid dies at 67
Suspected heart attack in Spain
29/07/2007 … Mike Reid, the stand-up who found fame as Frank Butcher in EastEnders has died at the age of 67.
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Sun 29 July 2007
Fri 27 July 2007
© BBC Langham: I viewed child porn
...but he denies being a paedophile
27/07/2007 … Chris Langham has admitted that he was guilty of looking at child pornography but said denied the charges to emphasise that he was not a paedophile.
He's dead funny...
27/07/2007 … Robin Williams regularly receives phone calls from female fans mistaking him for Robbie Williams.
HBO axes comedy website
Project lasted just six months
27/07/2007 … America’s HBO network is to shut down its comedy website This Just In after just six months.
© BBC Merton set for ITV improv show
27/07/2007 … Paul Merton is set to star in a new ITV1 improv show called Thank God You're Here.
Good news everyone!
Futurama returns... but only on DVD
27/07/2007 … The first feature-length Futurama is to be released on DVD in November, it has been revealed.
Thu 26 July 2007
Bernhard comes to UK
26/07/2007 … Outspoken US comic Sandra Bernhard is coming to the UK for the first time in six years.
© BBC Langham: I was abused
26/07/2007 … Chris Langham has wept in the witness box as he denied being a paedophile, and described how he was abused himself as a child .