French and Saunders hit out over 'hideous' comments made to pal Victoria Wood

The pair hail her as a "trailblazer" for women in the world of comedy and lament that she was treated so harshly in her early ...
Screen Daily

‘Becoming Victoria Wood’ review: Tender doc celebrates talent and tenacity of pioneering UK comic

Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Maxine Peake are among friends and colleagues paying tribute to Wood's comedy genius ...

Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup

Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Walters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot ...

Maxine Peake still in disbelief she worked with Victoria Wood

Maxine Peake still cannot believe she worked with Victoria Wood on Dinnerladies. Maxine, 51, played Twinkle in the BBC sitcom ...
Lexington Clipper-Herald

100 skulls and mummified body parts found in a Pennsylvania grave robbery case, police say

They were in various states. Some of them were hanging, as it were. Some of them were pieced together, some were just skulls ...
Lincoln Journal Star

Judge orders Jesse Hill to pay $37M restitution in Nebraska bank fraud case

A federal judge Friday ordered former investment adviser Jesse Hill to pay $37,145,963 in restitution as part of his bank ...
Chortle

Becoming Victoria Wood

Becoming Victoria Wood is an affectionate documentary that gives full context to the sexism and body-shaming – often internalised – that the comedian overcame on her path to becoming a bona fide ...