'Don't spoil the fun'
Gervais plea over lost Office scripts
29/11/2003 … Ricky Gervais has appealed for his lost scripts for The Office to be returned as a "Christmas present for the nation".
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Sat 29 November 2003
Street role? 'Ave it!
29/11/2003 … Peter Kay has landed a role in Coronation Street.
Fri 28 November 2003
Yes Mr President
Political sitcom set for US export
28/11/2003 … Yes Minister is set to be the next sitcom to be remade for the American market.
Office secrets leaked
Post mix-up reveals Christmas plot
28/11/2003 … Secrecy surrounding the final episodes of The Office has been broken - after the scripts were accidentally posted to the wrong address.
Getting into the sitcom habit
28/11/2003 … Jo Brand is writing an ITV sitcom about a group of nuns - after finishing her first novel.
Thu 27 November 2003
Write, said Fred
My Family creator heads new sitcom
27/11/2003 … My Family creator Fred Barron is working on a new sitcom about a woman having trouble with men.
John Leslie buries the hatchet
... thanks to Bo Selecta's Avid
27/11/2003 … John Leslie and Matthew Wright are to make peace, thanks to Bo Selecta's Avid Merrion.
Not so Everage
First Aussie comedy award winners announced
27/11/2003 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has been acclaimed as the outstanding live stand-up in the first Australian comedy awards.