Ruby Wax is to be stranded on an uninhabited tropical island in a new Channel 5 survival series, with only cameras to talk to. The comic, who recently came out of a psychiatric institution, has been training in survival skills.
Russell Kane and his wife are planning to sell their own brand of anti-ageing supplements. Meanwhile, the comic is also planning to release his first music single, the rap ballad Take Your Panties Off (The Floor).
Mark Gatiss has adapted M.R. James' classic ghost story, Count Magnus, for the BBC this Christmas. The corporation is also airing a recording of his stage version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, while Radio 4 features Mark Gatiss And Richard Coles Are On A Ghost Hunt.
