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A month ago, I wrote about Sarah Palin's unfitness to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee and attracted the wholly unwelcome attention of Fox News and its viewers.

Fawlty Towers is one of the best television shows ever. It ran for 12 episodes, and each is a highly-polished gem.

NOW for something completely different - a council has lifted its Monty Python ban after 28 years.

' whose chief credit is the Fox series American Dad! - ' brings a classic supporting horror-movie player centre stage, the way the Shrek movies subverted and showcased the ogre archetype.

Monty Python's The Life of Brian will have its first screening this weekend in a British town that banned it 28 years ago.

MONTY PYTHON fans in Torbay soon found themselves making alternative travel arrangements to see the film when it was released in 1979, writes Guy Henderson.

The famous Monty Python comedy The Life Of Brian is to be screened for the first time in a holiday resort after a council ban was declared void.

Cusack Likes Igor 's Twists Malaria doesn't sound like a great place to live, but in the upcoming animated film Igor , the gloomy, always-cloudy hamlet is a metropolis thriving with mad scientists and their ...

By Matt Martin The animated Igor is sort of sneaking onto movie screens this weekend.

Courtesy of the Weinstein Company John Cusack provides the voice of the title character in "Igor." About 'Igor' "Igor" HH Rated PG for some thematic elements, scary images, action and mild language.

Igor will make you sit up and take notice. The latest it's-for-kids-but-it's-really-for-their-parents-too animated fantasy flick is Igor, starring the voice of John Cusack in the title role.

A newspaper critic starts a feud with Frasier by printing an unflattering column about his show.

The political conference season, with its cod-revolutionary policy launches and poorly scripted fightbacks, brings to mind John Cleese's famous line in the film Clockwise: 'It's not the despair... I can take ...

S ome movies live on, their agreed-upon greatness chiseled in stone, or at least listed by the American Film Institute.

Shrek the Third 12.10pm & 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere Sadly, the charm of Mike Myers' grumpy green ogre wears as thin as the plotline in this disappointing threequel.

The Yorkshire Post brings you exclusive rehearsal footage and behind-the-scenes interviews from the upcoming West Yorkshire Playhouse production of Peter Nichols' army comedy - the film version of which starred ...

Monty Python's SPAMALOT will welcome a new king when Michael Siberry arrives at the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday September 16.

The Robinson Film Center's newest program, Friday Night Freak-Out!, kicks off Friday with the screening of 'Monty Python & The Holy Grail.' The program will be held once a month for a one-night only screening ...

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival ends on Bank Holiday Monday , so give or take the odd extra performance, it will all be over until next year in a little more than three days time.

FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE **** B'EST RESTAURANT THE lady beside me is, by now, terrified to put her elbows anywhere near the table.