During his joint interview with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie notes that he'd be too shy to write a novel under his own name, and would probably publish one under a pseudonym. Four years later Laurie released "The Gun Seller", reportedly submitted under a pen name, but published under his own name for publicity purposes.
The three episodes of Wogan for this week averaged at 5.4 million viewers and 90th place in the charts.