Being Tony Hancock
Rebus actor stars in BBC4 drama
23/11/2007 … Rebus star Ken Stott is to play Tony Hancock in the new BBC Four drama about his troubled life.
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Fri 23 November 2007
© CNN 'Comedians are a different species...'
23/11/2007 … Here we go, it’s him again:Russell Brand: ‘I wish I had gone further.
Thu 22 November 2007
© BBC Fork handles? That'll be £50,000
Barker's script under the hammer
22/11/2007 … Ronnie Barker’s handwritten script for the classic Fork Handles sketch is to go under the hammer.
Is this the science of comedy?
22/11/2007 … Laughter is the brain’s way of learning from its mistakes, according to researchers trying to develop a computer with a sense of humour.
Wed 21 November 2007
FX buys American Dad
21/11/2007 … Digital channel FX has snapped up the next two series of animated comedy American Dad.
Saturday Live – again
Brand to host C4 stand-up show
21/11/2007 … Russell Brand is to host a one-off Saturday Live-style comedy show for Channel 4.
Tue 20 November 2007
Karen Taylor gets another touch
BBC Three reorders sketch show
20/11/2007 … Karen Taylor has landed a second series of her BBC Three sketch show.
'A modern-day Steptoe'
20/11/2007 … Rab C Nesbitt actor Gregor Fisher is to star in a new BBC Two comedy that’s been described as a ‘modern-day Steptoe and Son’.