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Ex-editor fined for TV licence protest over 'Sachsgate'

11.05.10
Former national newspaper editor who withheld his television licence fee in protest at the Sachsgate lewd message scandal has been fined £262, it has emerged... more

Foreign Office has a Russell Brand moment

27.04.10
The messy response from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the leaked memo about the Pope’s visit is in keeping with its cultural uncertainty... more

Piers Morgan: If I were Jonathan Ross, I'd shoot myself

16.06.09
Piers Morgan has launched a scathing attack on Jonathan Ross, taunting his TV rival over viewing figures.... more

Fawlty Towers star Cleese bemoans state of TV comedy

06.05.09
The golden age of British TV comedy has passed, John Cleese said... more

Andrew Sachs forgives Brand and Ross for scandal

05.05.09
Andrew Sachs has said that last autumn's obscene messages scandal was "in the past", and he bore no resentment over the affair. ... more

BBC fined over Ross and Brand prank calls

03.04.09
The BBC has been fined £150,000 over the "grossly offensive" prank telephone calls made to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs on one of its radio shows... more

Sachs is cross as Ross is up for Bafta

24.03.09
Andrew Sachs has spoken of his surprise as Jonathan Ross was nominated for a Bafta... more

Fawlty star's family ‘torn apart’ by Ross phone scandal

23.01.09
Andrew Sachs has vowed never to watch Jonathan Ross again after tonight’s comeback, as it emerged his family has been torn apart by the scandal... more

Welcome back Wossy

23.01.09
Jonathan Ross returns to TV tonight after his suspension over Sachsgate. For one writer, Friday nights are complete again... more

Sachs: I won't watch Ross EVER again

23.01.09
Andrew Sachs has vowed never to watch Jonathan Ross again after his comeback.... more

Ross returns with Fry as his star guest

07.01.09
Jonathan Ross will play host to Stephen Fry and Lee Evans when his Friday night TV chat show returns this month... more

Radio 2 chief agreed Brand phone calls could be broadcast

21.11.08
Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas knew about the obscene calls Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross made to Andrew Sachs before they were broadcast... more

Russell shows a sign of respect

11.11.08
OH, if only Russell Brand had heeded this sign calling for "respect" before all the hoo-hah over Andrew Sachs... more

Ross could sue after ‘telling BBC not to broadcast obscene prank ’

10.11.08
Jonathan Ross could sue the BBC after warning producers not to broadcast the infamous obscene phone message, it was claimed... more

Grandpa came to watch me be a Slut

05.11.08
The 78-year-old Faulty Towers star has already seen granddaughter Georgina Baillie's provocative show.... more

Even bankers must join the flight from excess

31.10.08
Despite its bail-out, Goldman Sachs is set to pay out £7bn in salaries and bonuses. It is failing to grasp a new public fury over conspicuous consumption... more

Ross and Brand? That’s what happens when stars take over the show

30.10.08
Weak managers, far too much bureaucracy and overpaid celebrities are the real reasons the BBC lost the plot over the Brand/Ross crisis... more

How Russell Brand is flirting with his old enemy, self-harm

30.10.08
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Russell Brand ... he’s on TV tonight with a video of a woman who has sex with her pet dog... more

Brand's crime isn't bad taste but bad jokes

29.10.08
The BBC’s ‘prank’ is indefensible – but shouldn’t be used to stifle blokeish British humour... more

A disgusting Brand of sexist garbage

29.10.08
Should the likes of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross ever be as uninhibited as they think they have a right to be?... more

BBC boss: 'I'm sorry for gross lapse of taste'

29.10.08
BBC Director General Mark Thompson expressed his anger today over the "gross lapse of taste" that led to him suspending two of his top stars.... more

Andrew Sachs would be "horrified" if Brand had slept with his granddaugther

28.10.08
Andrew Sachs said he would be “horrified” if disgraced comedian Russell Brand had actually slept with his granddaughter.... more

The BBC must apologise in full

28.10.08
THE MEDIA regulator Ofcom has now launched an investigation into the obscene answering machine messages broadcast on the Russell Brand radio show... more

Suspended Ross warned 'never again'

28.10.08
The BBC was hoping today that a three-month ban for star presenter Jonathan Ross and the resignation of Radio 2's boss would draw a line under the obscene phone calls furore... more

BBC is forced to say sorry after obscene phone calls by Brand

27.10.08
The BBC and its highest paid star have been forced to apologise to actor Andrew Sachs after obscene messages were left on his answerphone - and went out on air... more

Suspended Ross warned 'never again'

27.10.08
The BBC was on the brink of open rebellion over the Jonathan Ross phone affair. One of the corporation's most senior officials has told friends she would quit if any of her staff were sacked.... more

Basil serves up laughter in Faulty Towers

14.08.08
A three-course lunch at an elegant restaurant in Drummond Street becomes a cross between school dinners and national service in Faulty Towers.... more


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