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Rebecca Adlington: I'm over Frankie Boyle spoon jibe

Rebecca Adlington has admitted she was "hypocritical" to complain about a BBC comedian who mocked her appearance.

The jokes may be less clever than in its big brother, Have I Got News for You, but Mock the Week can still serve up a few laughs. Now, as the 10th series begins, Frankie Boyle - the one who seems get a thrill out of reciting the most controversial jokes he can think of - has moved on. As has BBC Three darling Russell Howard, though as he is the least funny of the regular panel this is nota great loss. Dara O'Briain returns as host, with Andy Parsons and the quite wonderful Hugh Dennis still in their panel seats. They are joined by Chris Addison (The Thick of It, insurance adverts), Greg Davies (the headmaster in The Inbetweeners), and stand-ups Milton Jones and Seann Walsh.

There was a time when Mock the Week felt like Have I Got News for You's spikier younger brother. Its brow was low. Its comedy jeans hung at half-mast. In any given show you could be sure of jokes involving sex, drugs and royalty (or if Frankie Boyle was involved, all three at once). But Boyle has moved on and, for the time being, so has fellow stalwart Russell Howard, and the comedy in this topical panel show feels more comfortable and less subversive these days. As the tenth series begins, Dara O'Briain is still keeping order, with Andy Parsons and Outnumbered star Hugh Dennis as the key comics, ready to step forward and attempt to outgun each other on any given topic. Tonight they are joined by the smart and funny Chris Addison (from The Thick of It) and Greg Davies (Mr Gilbert from The Inbetweeners).

Amanda Holden: 'I loathe Frankie Boyle'

"Frankie Boyle. I loathe him," Holden explained. "I don't think he's funny or clever and I don't understand why anyone would give him a television show. You can print that."

Book Review: Frankie Boyle - My S*** Life So Far

The point missing BBC4 sitcom Twenty Twelve coupled with repeats of Auf Vedasane Pet have given me chance to catch up on my reading. I've always been a big fan of Digby Mackworth Dolben so I have naturally gravitated to Frankie Boyle's semi Autobiography "My shit life so far".

Frankie Boyle in talks with Channel 4 over show

Channel 4 are in talks to commission a new Frankie Boyle series - as the storm over his vile sexual slurs reached Government.

Commerce, Art, Humour, Humanity: all abstracts which Campus assiduously avoids in its mission to become the year's most surprising televisual misfire. Surprising, because this series set around the infantile faculty of a red-brick uni is the baby of Victoria Pile, the creator of the joyous hospital sitcom Green Wing. More surprising, still, because it pretty much replicates its predecessor's entire comedic set-up, from the general mood of institutional chaos to the surreal inter-scene interludes and the central, love-hate flirtation between a scatty neurotic and a smug wannabe lothario.

So where did it go wrong? Probably when Pile became possessed by the spirit of a 16-year-old Frankie Boyle acolyte. For where in Green Wing the sardonicism was lightly sprinkled, this slimes you with an industrial-sized vat of bile. In last week's opener, jokes, in no memorable order, involved: disabled people with "mongy" faces, the word vagina, foreigners talking funny, the word vagina, desperate fat women, women wearing no pants, and the word vagina. That many of these emanated, under the cloak of irony, from as blatant a David Brent rip-off as Andy Nyman's Vice Chancellor only added insult to injury. Might it improve? For many viewers, I suspect, that question is entirely academic.

C4 head 'apologises to Price over Boyle gags'

The head of Channel 4 has sent a letter to Katie Price apologising for an offensive joke that Frankie Boyle made about her son Harvey on his show Tramadol Nights.

Katie Price asks MP to sack C4 chief over Boyle joke

Glamour model Katie Price has called for the sacking of the Channel 4 boss who allowed the broadcasting of a vile sexual slur by comedian Frankie Boyle about her disabled son Harvey.

HarperCollins buys two more books from Frankie Boyle

HarperCollins has bought another two books from controversial comedian Frankie Boyle.