Extra viewers
01/07/2005 … More viewers watched Ricky Gervais's Extras last Thursday than any other show at the time.
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Fri 01 July 2005
Ali snaps
01/07/2005 … Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen has had a run-in with a newspaper photographer in New York.
A Noble gesture
Ross shuns Fringe for village halls
01/07/2005 … Ross Noble is shunning the Edinburgh Festival next month for a tour of village halls in some of Scotland’s most remote villages.
Thu 30 June 2005
Fawlty directions
Cleese voices car navigation system
30/06/2005 … John Cleese, who as Basil Fawlty once gave his car a ‘damn good thrashing’ with a branch, is to be the calming voice of a new in-car navigation system.
Kay pens new comedy
... and Nathan Barley could be back
30/06/2005 … Peter Kay is writing a new sitcom for Channel 4.
After Darkplace
Garth Marenghi duo's new project
30/06/2005 … The team behind Garth Marenghi's Darkplace are working on another Channel 4 series.
Radio 2 takes Flight
30/06/2005 … Perrier-nominated folk parodists Flight of the Conchords have landed their own Radio 2 series, with a host of names from the comedy circuit lending a hand.
Wed 29 June 2005
Lovely Dudley
Dagenham honours its favourite son
29/06/2005 … The theatre in Dudley Moore’s home town of Dagenham has honoured its most famous son.