Eric Morecambe

Because Christmas wouldn't be Christmas and all that, a double dose of E&E. First, a trawl of their archive of home movies from the 1950s and 60s, seen for the first time by Eric's surviving relatives. Then, on BBC Four, an engaging Neil Forsyth-scripted drama starring Stephen Tompkinson as Eddie Braben, the Liverpudlian co-responsible for the massive success of the duo in the 70s but who was worked to exhaustion under pressure.

Eric, Ernie & Me, BBC4 review

It is good to see a writer getting some credit for a change. And deservedly so.

Eric, Ernie And Me review

It's not Christmas without Morecambe and Wise, but even you think you've seen everything the duo have done, this latest BBC Four comedy biopic offers a new perspective on their enduring partnership, through the prism of the contribution Eddie Braben made to the act.

BBC re-writes history by faking Eric & Ernie's story

ATV/ITV made them mega TV successes and household names with Two of a Kind (1961-1968, written by Sid Green & Dick Hills) and that TV success was 'bought' by the BBC who offered them much more money and then made their shows 1968-1977 (written by Eddie Braben). The BBC bought them because they were already ratings successes and they built on that.

How a market trader helped to make Eric & Ernie

A profile of Eddie Braben.

The genius writer who brought all of us sunshine

Morecambe and Wise are our two most treasured comedians, their television career as a comedy double act will never be eclipsed.

Comedy cars being sold at auction

Eric Morecambe's Jensen Interceptor (which he drove when he had his heart attack), Only Fools and Horses Robin Reliant three-wheeler and Jimmy Tarbuck's Volvo are to be sold at auction.

Victoria Wood statue maker announced

Graham Ibbeson, whose work the late comedian is said to have admired, will sculpt lifesize bronze for her home town of Bury. He previously built the Eric Morecambe memorial.