2 h. ago 'Truly legendary' BBC comedy producer and writer dies in 'accident overseas'

Former University of Manchester student Bill Dare created Radio 4's Dead Ringers and worked on Spitting Image

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3 h. ago Bill Dare death: Spitting Image star dies after overseas accident

Colleagues have remembered producer as ‘comedy genius’ and ‘truly legendary’

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4 h. ago Dead Ringers creator Bill Dare dies after accident overseas, says agent as tributes paid to comedy writer

Bill Dare’s agent confirmed the comedy writer died at the weekend following an accident overseas

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4 h. ago Spitting Image and Dead Ringers producer dies in accident overseas

He also produced The Now Show, a satirical take on the news which ran on Radio 4 from 1998 to 2024

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5 h. ago Bill Dare dead: Spitting Image star and Dead Ringers creator dies after accident abroad

The comedy writer, who worked on eight series of the satire puppet show, died at the weekend.

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6 d. ago Chris O'Dowd says he wishes controversial The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan would write more

Chris O’Dowd says he thinks Graham Linehan is ‘the best comedy writer I’ve worked with’

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7 d. ago Chris O'Dowd says Graham Linehan is 'the best comedy writer I've worked with' as he becomes latest star to back 'cancelled' IT Crowd and Father Ted creator

The Irish comedian, 45, said the comedy writer was the 'best I've worked with' and revealed his wish for him to be back working in the industry.

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8 d. ago When my sister died, it wasn’t just her own childhood memories that disappeared. Mine did too | Jason Hazeley

Millie had fantastic recall, unlike mine. Now there are parts of my past – and myself – that I’ll never be able to rememberI was midway through Kathryn Mannix’s With the End in Mind when it happened. It’s a comforting book – the author is a palliative care consultant – that describes the basics of a good death: a diminuendo. The mind fades. The breath slows. Inevitably, gently, life stops.And then I got the call: my sister Millie had died. Her death, at the age of 47, was sudden and unexpected. She was my only sibling – four years younger than me. I put the book down. I’ll probably never finish it.Jason Hazeley is a comedy writer who is partly responsible for TV untellectual Philomena Cunk Continue reading...

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