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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Michael McIntyre hopes Nigella Lawson can save his bacon | Media Monkey by Monkey

The chat show business is proving to be no joke for Michael McIntyre as his BBC1 series is, according to the Daily Star, already under threat of being axed as ratings plummet. It might seem …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AM
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

James Corden on the missing list as stars fail to come out to play for RTS | Media Monkey by Monkey

Was it just Monkey or did the Royal Television Society programme awards at the Grosvenor House in London last even longer than usual? Proceedings wrapped up around 11.30pm. RTS president Pet…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AM
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Caroline Thomson steps into fresh role | Media Monkey by Monkey

She may have lost out in the final round of interviews for BBC director general to the short-lived George Entwistle but former chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has been in demand si…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:38AM
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Eye, eye, a blinking good Tim Vine joke by Monkey

Tim Vine won joke of the year at the Lafta awards yesterday for his gag "Conjunctivitis.com – that's a site for sore eyes" (Daily Telegraph). No point attempting a pay-off line after that,…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AM
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Paul Daniels gets a slice of the action | Media Monkey by Monkey

Now that's magic ... Paul Daniels has been injured by a pizza thrown by glove puppet Sooty, reports the Sun. In a scene for ITV's The Sooty Show, the puppet had to propel a pizza at the vete…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46AM
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Twitter 'shooting': the wrong target | Media Monkey by Monkey

Monkey owes Candice C Bailey an apology over our previous piece on a Twitter panic about false reports of a shooting incident in Oxford Street. While Bailey may have added to the confusion, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM
Friday, January 7, 2011

Star's second helping of Boyle leaves a bad taste | Media Monkey by Monkey

The Daily Star manages to add yet more insult to the injury comedian Frankie Boyle has caused with his controversial joke about Katie Price's disabled son, Harvey. The Star reports that Boyl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AM
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

And the number of complaints about Frankie Boyle's new show is ... | Media Monkey by Monkey

Bad luck Daily Mail. Monkey hates to be the bearer of bad news but its favourite new hate figure, Frankie Boyle, had 1.3 million viewers tune into his new Channel 4 show Tramadol Nights last…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM

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