Ricky Gervais has become involved in just two spats this week.
Simon Callow is to star in The Rebel, a new sitcom for the Gold channel inspired by Andrew Birch’s long-running cartoon strip in The Oldie Magazine.
It has been announced that Michael Sheen will narrate The Truthful Phone, a short film based on Terry Jones’ story of the same name to be directed by fellow Welshman Carl Rock. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to fund the project.
Comedy superstar Miranda Sings has signed a deal to make an eight-part series for Netflix. The series, taking its cue from one of Miranda's catchphrases, will be called Haters Back Off.
The American character, created by Colleen Ballinger-Evans, made her name through her D-I-Y YouTube clips in which she offered advice, talked about her home life and sang so-bad-they-are-brilliant pop cover versions.
It has been announced that actor Alan Rickman has died. He was 69 and had been suffering from cancer.
Rickman was probably best known for his role as Snape in the Harry Potter films. He was an eminent classical performer but also a skilful comic actor who knew when not to take himself too seriously. Most famously he was the villain in the first Die Hard movie and played the Sheriff on Nottingham in 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with a panto glint in his eye.
Ricky Gervais has talked about how he went from being a fan of David Bowie to being a friend.
Jemaine Clement has revealed how he and co-star Bret McKenzie tried to get David Bowie to play himself in an episode of the Flight of the Conchords TV series in 2007.
In the episode, entitled Bowie, the rock star visits Bret in various dream sequences and offers him advice. In one scene he advises him to wear an eyepatch. The show famously includes the duo’s musical tribute Bowie’s In Space, in which they reference various Bowie musical styles.
An episode of Dad’s Army not seen since it was first broadcast as part of the original BBC series nearly 47 years ago has been turned into an animation to be released next month exclusively by the BBC Store.
Bridget Christie has extended her run at the Leicester Square Theatre due to popular demand.
The award-winning comedian will now also appear there with her A Book For Her show on 15 & 22 Jan & 5-6 Feb at 7.30pm. She is also appearing there on the previously announced January 8.
Tickets here.
New arrivals to the UK at Heathrow Airport can now pick up tips on how to behave correctly from Stephen Fry. The comedian has shot a short guide to British etiquette for the airport’s wi-fi page.
Fry, who made the video in collaboration with writer Graham Linehan, explains that we are a nation “renowned for its sense of humour and little quirks” such as cheering when someone drops a glass. While standing in a queue to be served in a pub he suggests that "We Brits do love a queue."
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