It was announced in April 2008 that Anderson, who had previously filled in for host Ned Sherrin from 2006 until his death from throat cancer in 2007, would be taking over as permanent host of Loose Ends.

Rushton ’ s impersonation of the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan caught the attention of Ned Sherrin, a young BBC producer searching for talent to appear in a forthcoming TV satire series.

* 1956 And All That: A Memorable History Of England Since The War To End All Wars ( Two ) Ned Sherrin and Neil Shand ( Michael Joseph, 1984 )

It was produced by Ned Sherrin and retained only Frankie Howerd from the cast of the original series ( Ludicrus, for example, was played by Michael Hordern in the film adaptation, Erotica by Madeline Smith and Nausius by Royce Mills ).

It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost.

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

The daughters were the subject of a song, " The Mitford Sisters ", by Luke Haines and a musical, The Mitford Girls, by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

Adapted from the stage show about the flamboyant conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

In 1970, he appeared in short-lived West End of London musical, Sing a Rude Song written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin that same year.

Her other stage roles in the 1980s included Divine Dixie Diva in Mrs Cole's Music Hall at the Mill at Sonning ( 1984 – 85 ); Katisha, Countess of Grantham, in MetroPolitan Mikado, adapted from The Mikado by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton at Queen Elizabeth Hall ( 1985 ); Bev in Angry Housewives at the Lyric Hammersmith Studio ( 1986 ); Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers at Watermill Theatre ( 1986 ); Maggot Scratcher in Sink the Belgrano!

Ian Paisley, Andrew Gilligan, Ned Sherrin, Seventh Doctor & Sylvester McCoy, Sir Menzies Campbell, Ringo Starr, Nick Robinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Alan Carr, John Reid, Stephen Fry

Frost was chosen by writer and producer Ned Sherrin to host a pioneering satirical programme called That Was The Week That Was, alias TW3.

On the radio, she has been a regular contributor to Radio 4's Saturday miscellany Loose Ends, hosted originally by the late Ned Sherrin, now by Clive Anderson.

She began her television career as a clerk in the programme planning department, then obtained her first production job working as a researcher on the BBC One late-night satire programme, BBC3 ( 1965 – 66 ), created by Ned Sherrin.

Ned Sherrin included the quote in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations ; it was introduced in the third edition in 2005.

Gordon then studied the television medium at New York University in America and after her return helped Reg Watson and Ned Sherrin launch ATV Midlands in 1956.

Salad Days was next revived in April 1996 at London's Vaudeville Theatre, directed by Ned Sherrin and featuring Simon Connolly, Nicola Fulljames and Richard Sisson.

Edward George " Ned " Sherrin CBE ( 18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007 ) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director.

* Ned Sherrin: a Tribute-BBC Radio 4

* Ned Sherrin: That Was The Life That Was-The Times

* Veteran broadcaster Ned Sherrin dies of cancer-The Telegraph

* Ned Sherrin: author and beloved broadcaster-The Telegraph

* Ned Sherrin, stalwart of Radio 4, dies aged 76-The Independent

* Ned Sherrin, Creator of Mock News ‘ Week ,’ Dies at 76-The New York Times

When his producer Ned Marin moved from First National to the Fox Film Corporation Korda followed him.

Other early adopters included Todd Rundgren, Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, producer Rhett Lawrence and Ned Liben of EBN-OZN.

Its station managers have included Ned Miller — who plans to fire Frasier to cut costs but is fired first — Tom Duran, Kate Costas, and Kenny Daly, and at the end of the show, Roz Doyle, who was Frasier's producer throughout the show's run.

The project passed on to Tony Richardson, who wrote the script in collaboration with Ian Jones, a writer and producer of TV drama from Melbourne who was an expert on Ned Kelly.

Ned has a horrible dream about the evils of Hollywood in a sequence that includes a cameo by series producer James L. Brooks, and also the " Hollywood " sign reading " Hollyweird ", and refuses.

This leads to Jimbo, Ned ( though still comatose ), and the boys all appearing on Jesus and Pals, arranged by the show's producer.

The entire audience ( after Cartman threw a chair at Ned which is what the producer told him to do ) starts a huge fight and Kenny is ripped in half at one point.

After the series was over, producer John Semper explained if the series were to continue with a sixth season there would have been a storyline where Richard would frame Ned Leeds.

* Ned Dowd, an American actor and film producer

In August 2007 she voiced her disdain nationally about a video showing pupils from Glenalmond College, a co-educational independent boarding school in Scotland, acting out in a satirical video called " Class Wars " in which students dressed in the stereotypical attire of the Ned subculture are hunted by pupils dressed as Aristocrats.

The story is a satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land.

The music was commissioned by Ned Sherrin for the satirical TV series That Was The Week That Was and used in a sequence featuring the titular footwear ( then fashionable ).

Charles was a guest on programmes including Janice Long's Radio 1 show, and was a regular panellist on Ned Sherrin's chat show Loose Ends ( 1987-8 ) on BBC Radio 4.

The radio play The Salamander Letter written by Dylan Ritson and directed by Ned Chaillet was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 January 2005.

* In 2002 Mike Walker adapted the story into a radio play I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream for BBC Radio 4, directed by Ned Chaillet.

He is known for starring as the character Christopher Lowe in From Beyond the Grave, Jackie O ' Shea in Waking Ned and Jim Prideaux in the BBC production of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Cargill starred in three television series of Feydeau farces, adapted by Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms and entitled Ohh La La ( 1968 – 73 ), which were shown on BBC 2.

He appeared on an episode of Loose Ends hosted by Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4 ( 10 December 2005 ), during which his mobile phone rang.

Appearances on BBC One's Stand Up Show followed and they became regulars on Radio 4's Loose Ends programme with Ned Sherrin.