Simon Cowell

Should 'real' comedians do Britain's Got Talent?

I've been a comedy critic and a TV critic for longer than I care to admit so I should have known about this years ago. Until recently I always assumed that the acts on Britain's Got Talent are all wannabes who queue up at the studios at dawn hoping for their big break in front of Simon Cowell. This is not the case.

Newzoids: more new puppets make their debuts

New characters appearing include Simon Cowell, Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne.

Last night, ITV tried and failed to revive legendary, classic and once classy variety show Sunday Night at The London Palladium under the inexplicably shortened title Sunday Night at The Palladium.

If Simon Cowell had produced it, the show could have retained some class. Instead, ITV transformed class into crass and the result was somewhere between a reality show produced by Endemol on an off night and Saturday Night at Butlins for Essex Man.

Stephen Mulhern presented it like an edition of Big Brother's Bit On The Side and it came complete with what looked very much like an audience plant towards the start of the show.

To compound the felony of failing to revive an old classic rather than thinking up a new idea - and rather than have highly original variety acts - they went for Cirque du Soleil performers Les Beaux Freres who nicked the idea of the Greatest Show On Legs' classic 1982 Naked Balloon Dance and replaced the balloons with towels.

They performed perfectly serviceably and at least, unlike many acts, they changed the music and the objects. But original it most certainly was not.

Sunday Night at The London Palladium used to go out live. It did not last night. It went out dead.

David Walliams: I really want to be Simon's helper

David Walliams jokes he 'won't be Simon Cowell's favourite girl on X Factor any more'.

The Liam Hourican three minute interview

Liam Hourican is a TV personality, impressionist and semi-funny man. He was last seen in a starring role in Channel 4's Very Important People, playing Gordon Ramsay, Simon Cowell, Simon Bird and many others. Now he's appearing in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with A Kitchen Nightmare.

Simon Cowell's house on Through the Keyhole?

Keith Lemon says "I think he has an inherent hate for me. He always tells Louis Walsh off for coming on Celebrity Juice, as he wants them all to be taken seriously as judges."

Simon Cowell on X Factor musical

Simon Cowell has acknowledged that the recently-axed X Factor musical I Can't Sing! "didn't work".

Why 'I Can't Sing!' was voted out of the West End

After a year of thunderous hype, Harry Hill's Simon Cowell-produced X Factor musical I Can't Sing! has been voted out of the West End by the ticket-buying public - despite decent reviews, it'll end its run on May 10, scarcely two months after it began previews.

X Factor musical I Can't Sing! to close early

A West End musical based on The X Factor is to close after just two months. Co-written by Harry Hill, I Can't Sing! pokes fun at the talent show and its creator Simon Cowell.

Simon Cowell wants to make movie out of Harry Hill show

Simon Cowell has confessed that he wants to make a movie out of Harry Hill's X Factor parody musical.