Kathy Burke Burke won the Best Actress award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the gritty drama "Nil by Mouth". Burke was so convinced she would not win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date. The film also earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Since then she has appeared as Perry in "Kevin & Perry Go Large", and as Linda La Hughes in "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (which she developed with writer Jonathan Harvey) where she
The Kevin Bishop Show The Kevin Bishop Show The Kevin Bishop Show was a sketch comedy written by and starring English comedian Kevin Bishop, part of the "Star Stories" team. The show was commissioned by Channel 4 for a six-part series starting on 25 July 2008 at 10pm. A pilot was broadcast on 23 November 2007 as part of Channel 4's "Comedy Showcase" and the programme soon earned interest for its incredibly fast pace; 42 sketches were shown in 23 minutes. The show was nominated for Best New Comedy at the 2008 British Comedy Awards. The show started its second series on Friday 31