Jay Leno is being sued over a joke said to have hurt the feelings of ‘all Sikh people’.

Randeep Dhillon is seeking unspecified damages over a gag on the Tonight Show that suggested presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was so rich he lived in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

Leno’s show intercut footage of the holy site into a news report about the homes of the Republican candidates – suggesting the gold-plated temple was Romney’s ‘summer home’.

In his claim, Dr Dhillon said the gag ‘clearly exposes plaintiff, other Sikhs and their religion to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy because it falsely portrays the holiest place in the Sikh religion as a vacation resort owned by a non-Sikh’.

Dom Joly, who shot to fame in 2000 with Channel 4 prank show Trigger Happy TV, is creating a new series for ITV1.

The comedian has announced on Twitter that ITV1 has ordered eight episodes of Fool Britannia, a new hidden camera prank show created by him.

The star tweeted: “Just had eight part hidden camera show commissioned by ITV1 – for broadcast before X Factor Saturday night in October”. This being the slot currently held by Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn has taken to Twitter to announce that the sci-fi comedy will be returning to our screens later this year.

Llewellyn, who plays mechanoid Kryten, stated: “Red Dwarf X will be broadcast on Dave in September 2012″.

Red Dwarf last made an appearance in the schedules back in 2009, when the three-part Back to Earth aired on the Freeview channel over the Easter weekend. Series ten consists of six episodes and will see a return to the format of the show being filmed in front of a live studio audience. Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Llewellyn are all reprising their original roles while Doug Naylor resumes writing duties.

The American remake of Friday Night Dinner has taken a step closer to reality, after the NBC network gave the green light to a pilot episode.

Greg Daniels, the King Of The Hill creator who made such a success of translating The Office for US audiences, is both producing the new version and writing the script.

David Koechner – who plays Michael Scott’s boorish friend Todd Packer in the US Office – is also attached to the show. It is not known whether he is being lined up to play the father or the eccentric neighbour.
Meanwhile, the Channel 4 original, created by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, will return for a second series later this year.