BBC4 comedy Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche, won best TV comedy.

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Like millions of other women before and after, Perkins juggled a flying circus of irreconcilable responsibilities because there was no alternative.

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However, when the Flying Circus finally took to the air in October it was clear that their efforts had surpassed Milligan's.

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The attempt by Mr. Gilliam, an American who became the resident animator of "Monty Python's Flying Circus, " was far from his first experience with embattled productions.

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The defendant was at the Dowdle home watching "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on television at 10 p.m. and did not leave the home until about 10:50 p.m.

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The cousin, James Dowdle, testified that Skakel was with him at his home watching the premiere of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and hanging out until about 10:50.

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Cleese, a co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus and creator of Fawlty Towers, was cast partly because of an earlier Emmy-winning performance in an episode of US sitcom Cheers.

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"Thank God we weren't trying to remake the sacred classic that everybody loves, " says Zach Braff, who plays both Diggs' underappreciated circus assistant and provides the voice of a computer generated flying monkey.

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For the first six films, Dent was an ally to Gordon and Batman, but now they are hunting him down as he starts a gangland war in the city, and one event during the war is the killing of the Flying Graysons in front of their young-teens son, Dick, at the circus.

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