Radio One DJ Nemone apologised during her debut weekday show when the lead singer of rock band Ash Tim Wheeler swore live on air.

The blooper occured during a broadcast from the Cham Jam snowboarding and music festival in Chamonix.

A spokesman for Radio One said: "Unfortunately Tim, the lead singer of Ash, swore just before performing their first song.

"Nemone apologised to listeners on air afterwards."

Blethyn makes US sitcom debut

British actress Brenda Blethyn is set to make her US sitcom debut.

The star of Saving Grace plays the lead role in comedy pilot The Seven Roses - from the creative brains behind Frasier.

Blethyn plays Pamela - an ex-stage actress and widowed matriarch who owns a family-run inn.

"She's always been our first choice," said Christopher Lloyd, who created the project with Joe Keenan. "When we wrote this on spec, we started conjuring up her image and voice."

Blethyn was Oscar nominated for 1998's Little Voice and 1996's Secrets and Lies.

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Tyson-Lennox celluloid fight off

Oscar-nominated director Steven Soderbergh has decided not to hire Mike Tyson to fight Lennox Lewis in a remake of 1960 film Ocean's Eleven.

"My sense was that it would not be a tension-free set," said Soderbergh, "and I believe in a tension-free set."

Lewis will instead be paired with World Boxing Organisation heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko. The fight scene, to be shot at Las Vegas's MGM Grand hotel at the end of this month, calls for about 9,000 extras.

The cast includes George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Bill Murray.

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Frasier gets three more years

US network NBC has struck a deal with Paramount to keep comedy series Frasier on the air for at least three more years.

The series, starring Kelsey Grammer as a pompous Seattle psychologist, won the Emmy award for best TV comedy for five consecutive years from 1994 to 1998.

NBC had reportedly been paying Paramount $5m (�3.42m) per episode for the series. While the network said it had agreed to an increase of 10 per cent, Paramount said it was more than that.

There was a risk Paramount could take the series - seen in the UK on Channel 4 - to another network if NBC did not agree to a new deal, as talks were originally meant to be concluded a week ago.

Kelsey Grammer said he was happy with the deal.

"I got off the phone and jumped around the room for a while," he said.