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See top stand-ups tape telly show
05/06/2006 … Some of the stars of this year’s Edinburgh festival are to record sets for the Paramount Comedy Channel.
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Mon 05 June 2006
How very dare you!
05/06/2006 … A complaint that Catherine Tate’s effeminate character Derek is offensively homophobic has been rejected by BBC governors.
Sun 04 June 2006
He ought to be hung
Vic wins place in Royal Academy show
04/06/2006 … Vic Reeves is to exhibit two paintings at the art world’s prestigious Royal Academy summer exhibition.
Unfairly Branded
Russell hits back at tabloid kiss-and-tell
04/06/2006 … Russell Brand has hit back at a tabloid journalist who targeted him in a typical‘honey trap’ sting.
Sat 03 June 2006
Seeing double
Iannucci works on two BBC pilots
03/06/2006 … Armando Iannucci is producing two new sitcom pilots with Chris Addison and Father Ted writer Arthur Mathews.
Brand new sitcom
03/06/2006 … Russell Brand is working on a new sitcom for Radio 2 The comic, who has been in the headlines for his liaisons with Kate Moss, has created Cloud Cuckooland…
Fri 02 June 2006
Bean counters
Atkinson makes millions from TV deal
02/06/2006 … Tiger Aspect, the production company behind The Catherine Tate Show and The Vicar of Dibley, has been sold for more than £25 million.
Punk's not dead
02/06/2006 … Adrian Edmondson is to revive the memory of Young Ones Vyvyan by writing a sitcom about a punk-loving dad.