Here are the juiciest bacon-wrapped chipolata sausages from the Christmas dinner that is comedy news….
Comedy DVDs will outsell movies for the first time, Tesco has said. In the week that Michael McIntyre’s (pictured) Hello Wembley announced sales of more than a million copies, the supermarket says stand-up and comedy TV titles are its strongest-performing line.
It reports sales of vintage comedy box sets grew by 800 per cent year-on-year, with The Vicar of Dibley and Fawlty Towers among the top sellers.
Keith Metcalfe, Tesco’s DVD buying manager said: 'Customers are clearly looking to have a laugh this Christmas and in these gloomy economic times who can blame them? For a fraction of the ticket price to a show you can watch your favourite comedians again and again on DVD.’
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Del Boy’s ‘Nelson Mandela House’ is to be torn down. The 13-storey Harlech Tower on West London’s South Acton Estate, which stood in for Peckham in Only Fools And Horses in the early Eighties, is to be demolished as part of a major redevelopment of the 42-acre estate, which has been plagued with problems.
Will Brooks from Ealing council said: ‘Only Fools and Horses is loved, but we are talking about the quality of people's lives. There are issues with crime and drugs and anti-social behaviour.’ The building will go in 2011.
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Talking of Del Boy, the 2001 Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses was the most-watched TV show of the last decade, it has been announced. The show attracted 21.3 million viewers, or almost three-quarters of all the viewers watching TV at the time.
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The episode of Harry Hill’s TV Burp that compared Viennetta to German tanks rolling into Poland did not breach broadcast rules, regulator Ofcom said yesterday. The programme had attracted 13 complaints.
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