... NEW SERIES THURS, FEB 3 The Peter Principle BBC1 comedy series (9.30 10pm) Production company: Hat Trick. Cast includes: Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Beverley Callard. Writers: Mark Burton. John O'Farrell, Dan Patterson. Producer: Dan Patterson. Director: Nick Wood. Jack Dee's Full Mountle BBC1 comedy series (10.30 11pm) Writer: Jack Dee. Series producer: Myfanwy Moore. FRI, FEB 4 True BBC ...

... SNAPS HTV drama A Mind to Kill has been criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for the use of bad language in an edition screened in December last year. Although the complaint was upheld, the broadcaster said in its defence that the edition dealt with a murderer who had been abused as a child and that the language contributed to the dramatic effect. TIm Writers' QuiM of Great ...

... Personate which received its British premiere at London's New End Theatre in September 1998 will open in the West End at the Apollo Theatre on June 15. With book and lyrics by the cre ators of the hit television series Friends. David Crane. Marta Kauffman, together with Seth Friedman, and music by William K Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Oscar-winners Alan Menken and Stephen ...

... Magic Alexei Sayle stare In BBCl's Arabian Nights THURS, APRIL 27 Under Offer Meridian game show, regional only (7.30 8pm) Production company: Meridian Broadcasting and HTV West. Presenter: Yvette Fielding. Producer: Rodney Taylor. SUN, APRIL 30 Arabian Nights BBC1 two-part drama (6.40 8.10 pm) Production company: Hallmark Entertainment. Cast includes: Oougray Scott. Mili Avital, James Frain, ...

... ABERDEEN His Majesty's Fame: The Musica BAGNOR Watermill Up'nUnder BATH Rondo Wouldn't It Be Nice (15-16] Theatre Royal The Cherry Orchard Theatre Royal. Ustinov Studio Female Transport BELFAST Grand Opera House Royal Ballet Lyric Marching On BILLINGHAM Forum Out of Order BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Theatre Elvis: The Musical Repertory Saint Joan Repertory, Door Studio The Gift BLACKPOOL Grand Mack ...

... SNAPS Montreux Roses went to two UK comedies this week. Chris Langham's BBC2 show People Like Us. which was exported wholesale from the Radio 4 show of the same name, won the Silver Rose. Channel 4 comedy Trigger Happy TV. starring Dom Joly, won a Bronze Rose. Chris Evans' Virgin break fast show has been censured by the Radio Authority for making constant references to cannabis and oral sex in ...

... Everything Mint Go, by Patrick Jones Lyric Theatre. Hammersmith, King Street W6 to May 27, as part of a national toui until June 4. Management: Sherman Theatre Company. Cast includes: Russell Gomer, Director: Phil Clark. Designer: Jane Linz Roberts. Lighting: Ceri Jones. Soundtrack: Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia. Super Furry Animals. Stereophonies. Press: Ben Chamberlain. 020 8858 5545. ...

... National Theatre newt: Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by Howard Davies, opens at the Cottesloe Theatre on July 6, with Julie Walters. James Hazeldine. Catherine McCormack. Ben Daniels, Charles Edwards. Beveriey Longhurst and Paul Ritter in the cast: Ken Campbell's History of Comedy Part One: Ventriloquism has an 11-show run only, also at the Cottesloe, from August 25, directed by Colin ...

... SNAPS Barbaric Comedies, the Edinburgh International Festival flagship drama, may make a financial loss. A co-production between the EIF and Dublin's Abbey Theatre, its artistic director Ben Barnes confirmed the show costing £500,000 may not break even. Sources say that it is playing to 400 people a night during its 13-date run in the 1,300 King's Theatre. Kid's Week 2000 begins in the West ...

... the visual directory of liaht entertainment Who's Where SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 The following artists, listed in 2000, the visual directory of light entertainment, can be seen working at the following venues on the dates shown. For more information on these artists, consult your copy of 2000. Showcall artists can also be found on the Internet at: www.showcall.co.uk/diary WARD ...

... NEW SERIES MON, MAY 8 Black Cab BBC2 series of short films (10.20 10.30pm) Production company: World Productions. Cast includes: Stephen Tompkinson, Harriet Walter, Phil Davis. Lesley Manville, Phil Comwell, Marc Warren. Clive Russell, Gillian Kearney. Philip Jackson, Diane Abbott. Series creator: Amelia Bullmore. Series devisers: Amelia Bullmore, Simon Heath. Writers include: Mark Ravenhill, ...

... SNAPS George Brick, musician and broadcaster, who died recently, will be honoured in a star-studded memorial service at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, London at 12 noon on Friday, May 12. Peter Schaufuss's con troversial ballet The King will open at Sadler's Wells tonight (Thursday), follow ing a last minute rewrite to avoid the threat of legal action. A spokesman for the venue said ...