The BBC will not be bringing us the third series of 24, which has been picked up by Sky1 for February, but it is making The Worst Week of My Life, a seven-part comedy about the week before a wedding.
Stephen Colbert shut down his late-night comedy show this week for his ailing 91-year-old mother, sources close to the show said yesterday.
Mr. Madrigal also performed comedy tenaciously, doing up to 10 shows a week at clubs like the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory.
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They will increasingly control their own scheduling, with personal video recorders and an electronic programme guide, which viewers can instruct to record all the week's comedy, say, or gardening shows.
In a move first reported by The New York Times, Viacom has decided to pull The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (among the top three most popular series on Hulu this week), spin-off The Colbert Report and other Comedy Central series from the video-sharing site next week.
The Matthew Perry comedy was down a bit this week, but NBC will gladly accept this outcome against the return of a tough rival.
However, Ross criticised the BBC for becoming over-cautious in the wake of the Sachs affair, echoing comments made by comedy producer John Lloyd earlier this week.
Additionally on 6 Music, Legends of Comedy will be the theme for the week on the Breakfast show, hosted by Shaun Keaveny.
But even after watching the Daily Show for the past week, the notion of a Comedy Central produced political rally still sits off-balance in my oft-laughing belly.
The average American television-watching household increased its comedy-watching to nearly five hours per week during the most recent TV season, up from fewer than four hours in the 1993-94 season, according to Magna's estimates.
Jemaine Clement was far from self-obsessed when he came to our New York bureau this week to explain the differences between American comedy and what makes the kiwi laugh.
As Forbes Dorothy Pomerantz reported last week, the show is the most-watched comedy in prime time averaging 15.2 million viewers.
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Despite being cast in a role that sometimes requires him to work 70 hours per week, McHale hasn't stopped doing standup comedy or The Soup.
Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in the week's second-highest new entry, romantic comedy No Reservations at five.
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As Prof McWilliams struggled through the Edinburgh Festival crowds last week, his analysis might have been best suited to the comedy end of the Fringe programme.
The Ashton Kutcher comedy was an exception to the downward trend, climbing 6 percent this week despite its "Big Bang" lead-in getting a bit softer in the adult demo.
My Poo Suit was downgraded to an ensemble when I stealthily overheard a conversation this week about Barbra Streisand's male impersonator coming to do comedy routines at the American Club in Hong Kong.
Admittedly, animated series get cancelled even with the best of bookends (Allen Gregory was let go last week, after airing only seven episodes, despite its association with comedy powerhouse Jonah Hill).
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And this week Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the creators of the hit Channel 4 comedy Spaced, release a "romantic zombie comedy" - or "romzomcom" - Shaun of the Dead.
This week Peet returns to primetime with "Bent, " a half-hour romantic comedy from "Scrubs" vet Tad Quill.
The Neighbors has clearly emerged as the weak link in the network's Wednesday comedy chain, but last night also suggested the show might be stabilizing since it did not drop this week.
This business stucture makes sense for Battlestar, Saturday Night Live, and 30 Rock, all shows that do well in syndication, but what is the point of offering a show like Party Down, a half-hour comedy program produced by the Starz cable network, to viewers via a web stream through Netflix the same week that a new episode airs on TV?
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