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The kings – and undisputed queen – of British comedy are...
Monday 12 December 2011
Miranda Hart is set to consolidate her position as one of the biggest comedy stars in Britain after scooping four nominations at the British Comedy Awards.
Jumpy, Royal Court, London
Monday 24 October 2011
Painfully funny portrayal of a woman on the verge of a breakdown
Green TV star joins race to unseat Sarkozy in 2012
Thursday 14 April 2011
A popular television environmentalist, Nicolas Hulot, has joined the rush of candidates for next year's presidential election – further complicating Nicolas Sarkozy's route to winning a second term.
DVD: Episodes: Series One (15)
Friday 04 March 2011
The latest sitcom from Friends co-creator David Crane stars Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig as a British couple who write a hit BBC TV show. They move to LA to recreate their sitcom for a US audience, but realise the studio execs have no intention of sticking to their original concept. Enter the great Matt LeBlanc (Friends' Joey), playing a caricature of himself, who is horribly miscast as the show's protagonist, much to Mangan and Greig's vexation. Frequent laugh-out-loud moments and a host of endearingly awful characters make this series feel like a very promising start, but Americanised one-liners fail to capitalise on Mangan and Greig's distinctly British delivery.
Last Night's TV - One Born Every Minute, Channel 4; Baking Made Easy, BBC2; Episodes, BBC2
Tuesday 01 February 2011
Laughter, tears and jiggery-pokery
Last Night's TV - Silent Witness, BBC1; Birth of Britain, Channel 4; Episodes, BBC2
Tuesday 18 January 2011
A fine show of esprit de corpse
Episodes, BBC2, Monday<br/>Zen, BBC1, Sunday<br/>Human Planet, BBC1, Thursday
Sunday 16 January 2011
It's a comedy about a comedy with precious little comedy – but just maybe, the joke's on us
Last Night's TV - Episodes, BBC2; Shameless, Channel 4; Baking Made Easy, BBC2
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Atlantic crossing's not that smooth
Episodes: The one where Matt LeBlanc plays himself...
Thursday 06 January 2011
Matt LeBlanc became a hermit after Friends and Joey – but the chance to send himself up in a new sitcom was irresistible, he tells James Rampton
C4's Inbetweeners plan their final act
Friday 29 October 2010
Having discovered comedy gold in the shape of one of the funniest series to hit the small screen in the past decade, Channel 4 has had to face an unpalatable truth: inbetweeners do not stay inbetweeners forever.
Tamara Drewe, Stephen Frears, 111 mins, (15)<br/>Cyrus, Jay and Mark Duplass, 91 mins, (15)
Sunday 12 September 2010
A quintessentially British tale of passion and folly – with a touch of darkness too
First Night: Tamara Drewe, Cannes Film Festival
Tuesday 18 May 2010
A pretty tale of countryside alliances – but hardly Hardy
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