Nice one. For what you're gonna be doing, you definitely don't want to be ripped.
What's causing you problems with the diet? Assuming you have free reign with herbs and spices, you should be able to make some nice stuff there.
I'll use this thread to post a couple of obscure deaths:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6370925.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6370831.stm
A sad day for fat geeks.
I'll also pimp Black Books and Father Ted and add Gimme Gimme Gimme.
I also loved Coupling if that gives any weight to my recommendations.
Also anything with Chris Morris such as The Day Today or Brass Eye, although maybe not to your taste.
It'll be interesting seeing who does the festival circuit this year. This thing seems to be on around the same time as the festival I'm off to in Barcelona, so there may be some crossover.
I know Bjork is playing Glastonbury, so she might turn up.