America gets Spaced
30/10/2007 … America’s Fox network is to make its own version of Spaced.
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Tue 30 October 2007
Mon 29 October 2007
Noel minds the Buzzcocks
Boost star stands in for Bill Bailey
29/10/2007 … Noel Fielding is to be a guest captain for three episodes in the new series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Save the British Comedy Awards
29/10/2007 … Chortle today launches a campaign urging ITV to reinstate the British Comedy Awards.
Sat 27 October 2007
Sitcom cuts 'offensive' scenes
27/10/2007 … Welsh channel S4C has axed scenes from comedy series Man Del after complaints that they mocked the blind.
Fri 26 October 2007
© BBC No more Jam for Joanna
26/10/2007 … Joanna Lumley is quitting the Jennifer Saunders sitcom Jam and Jerusalem.
© ABC Keitel to play Springer
Opera goes to New York at last
26/10/2007 … Harvey Keitel is to appear in a US stage version of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Thug jailed for attacking comic
26/10/2007 … The 18-year-old thug who beat up Edinburgh stand-up Bruce Devlin has been jailed for two years.
Chuckle Brother sleeps with dead hooker
26/10/2007 … Noel Fielding: ‘Sometimes I look in the mirror and see a woman.