Hermione Corfield

Only Idiots Assume wins protest song competition

Stephen Fry said: "I am insanely in love with Only Idiots Assume. It's got the anger, the wit, the musical skill - all in a wonderful package that reminds me of the high days of my youth when punk roamed the land and the young were angry and funny and spunky and spiky."

Video Interview: Tamsin Greig on latest challenge

Actress Tamsin Greig talks about her latest West End play The Little Dog Laughed, in which she plays a pushy agent.

She spoke to BBC Breakfast about what she loves about acting and why she thinks the public sometimes take too much interest in the private lives of celebrities.

Vote for the Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time

Channel 4 want your vote for the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. Back in 2006, we produced the definitive list of the top 100 comedians to take to the stage - four years on we want to see what's changed - who has still got them rolling in the aisles?

The Fattest Man in Britain was all about the suit

Should a thin man ever put on a fat suit? Is it acceptable for a skinny actor to play an obese character, given that it is no longer accept­able for a white actor to black up as Othello, or even for a white singer to black up as a white singer, in the case of Al Jolson? I ask this because last week's big ITV drama had Timothy Spall inhabiting The Fattest Man in Britain. He wasn't so much playing him as playing an enormous prosthetic suit. He looked like a small boy smothered by a collapsed dirigible. He was a squeaking bouncy castle.

Last Night's TV - The Fattest Man in Britain

What a tour de force Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope are. The Fattest Man in Britain was a modern day fairytale. Its sentimentality and morality message were not in-your-face obvious, but it without doubt left me feeling the goodwill to all men thing.

Timothy Spall on The Fattest Man in Britain

Timothy Spall on his queasy experience playing the super-sized Georgie in ITV1's comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain.

The Fattest Man In Britain

You could say it's the biggest role of Timothy Spall's career. Not to mention the hottest.

Doth I protest too much?

When police admit you could be put on a secret database for being at a demo, it's time to worry.

Yes, Porridge WAS the greatest show ever

An affectionate tribute from the creator of Birds of a Feather.

Not Martin Freeman's greatest work

Does it work? Well, no. But let's not go crazy in our ambition here. It's ITV1. What's important is that it's not awful - and actually quite watchable, if just to try and figure out how it's going to keep going.