Telling it straight
Viewers force gay characters off sitcom
23/03/2004 … The BBC axed a lesbian storyline from a prime-time sitcom because viewers found the idea distateful.
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Tue 23 March 2004
So funny it hurts
Comic injures a captain of industry
23/03/2004 … Comic Dominic Holland has caused a high-flying businessman to laugh so much that he injured himself.
Earl's a singer...
23/03/2004 … Earl Okin is to release a new album next month 36 years after his first single.
Mon 22 March 2004
Meera goes Bad
22/03/2004 … Kumars star Meera Syal is taking a break from comedy to appear in Bad Girls as a convicted killer.
Sun 21 March 2004
On the house!
Win Al Murray tickets in Glasgow
21/03/2004 … Al Murray is appearing at the Glasgow Carling Academy on Friday as part of the city's second annual comedy festival.
Bad conduct
On The Buses star freezes out family
21/03/2004 … On The Buses star Bob Grant didn't leave a penny to his mother or his two children, it has been revealed.
Sat 20 March 2004
It's Balti Towers
C4 commissions curry-house sitcom
20/03/2004 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new sitcom set in a Glaswegian curry house.
The passages of time...
20/03/2004 … Julian Clary is writing his autobiography, to be called A Young Man's Passage.