Catherine Tate - Former Bbc Head Of Comedy Dies In Road Accident

Geoffrey Perkins, the former BBC TV head of comedy, has died later a London road accident.

The 55-year-old produced The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio as well as masterminding the success of The Catherine Tate Show, The Fast Show and Channel 4's Father Ted.

He co-wrote The Harry Enfield Television Programme and executive produced a number of BBC comedy hits including Happiness, My Hero, Two Pints of Lager, My Family, Coupling, and Big Train.

Perkins had recently realized production on Harry and Paul, with Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, which begins next week.

BBC director of vision Jana Bennett aforesaid she was "shocked and deeply saddened" by Perkins' death.

"Geoffrey Perkins was an spectacular creator of countless drollery hits on the BBC and elsewhere, and a very distinguished former BBC head of comedy.

"He embraced funniness talent to create alone programmes which will be enjoyed for a selfsame long fourth dimension to issue forth. All of our thoughts are with Geoffrey's family at this very lamentable time."

Pete Bennett-Jones, chairman of Tiger Aspect productions with whom Perkins had recently been working, added: "Geoffrey was one of the kindest, much loved and unambiguously talented people we knew. He genuinely made the world a funnier place.

"It is an absolute tragedy and our thoughts and prayers ar with his family at this prison term."

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Fabolous Wants Swizz Beatz, Ryan Leslie To Go Loso's Way; Chamillionaire Gets Raw, In Mixtape Monday

Artist: Chamillionaire

Representing: Houston

Mixtape: Mixtape Messiah 4

411: King Koopa isn't sledding to blockage with only three. Chamillionaire's Mixtape Messiah 4 will go far on August 27.

"I think the other ones ar so critically acclaimed by fans, I wanna keep on that competiveness up with myself," he told us in Houston, where he was wait to record a freestyle with Killer Mike. "They'll compare this one to the other Mixtape Messiahs. Mixtape Messiah 1 is in all likelihood my biggest one so far. It came out of nowhere. At that time, I had the beef with Mike Jones, and it was a triple-disc CD. Nobody did that. It was real shock value. I'm gonna keep on competing with myself. I might not drop a triple disc; it's a double saucer this time. But it's two CDs full of nothing but new material."

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� D-Block - "Cocaine Music"

The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground

Loso, in case you didn't know so. You know the tear that Manny Ramirez has been on since he was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the L.A. Dodgers? Well, Fabolous has been that multiplication three. All of his guest appearances lately have been pristine. "I'm so NY, like the folks who wee-wee PlayStation," he raps on the "Hi Hater" remix. "Yeah, I'm back sweet off the hate-cation/ I let the hatas take a break/ Now I'mma let it out the bag like Jake the Snake."

What's the best poesy out of his recent run of cameos that include work with Red Cafe, Mariah Carey and Ryan Leslie? "All of 'em," he said. "Anybody who knows me know I love to measure out to the collabo world. Best verse? That's a hard one. I go in different lanes. I apply it my all wheresoever I whole tone up."

Last weekend Fab was in New York with Swizz Beatz. The two came down to Ryan Leslie's video shoot for "Addiction." Yeah, we love Ryan dig a video for the song a few weeks back, simply hey, when you experience a record that big, you're allowed to score two.

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There has been a Lil' Flip sighting, ladies and gentlemen. A Lil' Flip sighting! Flip stirred the town recently in Houston while the Ozone Awards were in his city. We actually chopped it up with him right after Rick Ross and DJ Khaled performed.

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Classic recordings survive studio blaze

Music archivists everywhere - and particularly in Universal City, California - will be breathing a sigh of relief. A fire ripped through the Universal Studios lot on Sunday, with initial reports stating that thousands of recordings in their vaults had been destroyed. However. where there is smoke there is not always fire; the recordings have all been found safe and sound, well away from the scene of the blaze.

Classic recordings by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland and the Carpenters were among the "thousands of original recording masters" from the Decca, MCA and ABC labels that were originally thought to have been destroyed.

"We had no loss, thankfully," a Universal spokesperson told Billboard. "We moved most of what was stored there earlier this year to our other facilities." The use of the word "most" might not settle the nerves of hardened archivists, there is no cause for panic: Universal had taken the advice of computer geeks who kept reminding them to "back up your data!"

"The small amount that was still there and awaiting to be moved had already been digitised so the music will still be around for many years," the spokeperson said. "[We] also had physical backup copies of what was still left at that location, so we were covered."

Unfortunately, Universal Studios was not able to make digital backups of everything, especially not animatronic gorillas - a 30ft robot of King Kong was among the casualties that did indeed go up in smoke.


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Former top model found dead in Paris

The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to become an internationally-acclaimed model, was found in the Seine River, Parisian police have said.
Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and other renowned designers was found on Thursday near the Garigliano bridge in Paris.
According to police an autopsy showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the possibility that the 47-year-old may have fallen into the river accidentally.
She had been missing since January and was last seen returning home from a party.
She lived in a houseboat near Paris' Alexandre III bridge, and her handbag was later found on board the boat.
The Guinean-born model told The Associated Press in 1994 that she ran away to Europe at 17 aiming to be a model. Her big break came when a designer at Lanvin spotted her in a line-up.
After quitting the catwalk, she turned to speaking out actively against female circumcision, describing her own experience at age 9-years-old in a book, 'Katoucha, In My Flesh', which was published last year.
"I will never get the incomparable pain out of my head": she wrote in the book, which she dedicated to her three children.
Vanity Fair's fashion and style director, Michael Roberts, said Katoucha was: "One those girls who used her fame to spotlight the misfortunes of others."
In the months before her death, Katoucha took on her first film role, playing a beautiful and rebellious woman, said Leandre-Alain Baker, director of 'Ramata'.
Filming is complete but a release date has not yet been set.