BCG Daily Tuesday 22nd April 2014

TV review: Chris Addison's Trying Again

Despite their best everyman turns, the central characters are just plain dull, with a one-dimensional supporting cast.

Football has all the big comedy themes

When does a hobby stop being a hobby and become a sickness? Why are men more prone to mono-mania than women?

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This review

David Threlfall should walk off with this year's best actor Bafta after a pitch-perfect portrayal of the much-loved comedian, supported by a phalanx of perfectly turned supporting roles.

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, ITV - TV review

Tommy Cooper lives, but where did his early years disappear to?

Review - Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, ITV

Entertaining if unilluminating biopic about the comedian.

Comedy in the Dark, Udderbelly - comedy review

Stand-ups working in total pitch black is certainly a fun concept, but it would feel less gimmicky if more did something lack-of-sight specific.

The world of comedian Jenny Eclair

Comedian and writer Jenny Eclair talks to Jessamy Calkin about baths, Filofaxes and Grumpy Old Women.

Bolton News' chief football writer tries stand-up

What happens when you put a football writer on stage with a microphone, a handful of cue cards and a few dodgy jokes? Marc Iles finds out whether comedy can be taught - or whether he has missed the punch-line completely.

Radio Times review

With the World Cup lurking enticingly on the horizon, this animated sitcom about a hapless everyman football freak is pitched somewhere between Family Guy, Uncle and Soccer AM. Unfortunately, it's not as funny as any of them.

There's no shortage of talent involved: Spy's Darren Boyd stars as Warren; Johnny Vegas is the imaginatively monikered coach Fat Baz; and Morwenna Banks (or Peppa Pig's mum to the UK's entire toddler population) plays drippy son Harrison. But the stereotypical main protagonist lacks the satirical edge of a Homer Simpson or a Peter Griffin, and you might find yourself yearning to slap him out of his soccercentric stupor.

Tommy Cooper: the best quotes

Last night David Threlfall turned in an award-worthy performance as Tommy Cooper in the ITV biopic Not Like That, Like This. Here, we celebrate the fez-wearing comic conjuror's finest lines...

Warren United review

Hopefully the series will up its game before the season is done.

Richard Gadd review - 'hyper-neurotic black comedy'

Gadd brings a strong sense of the absurd to this multimedia depiction of psychological frailty.

Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores review

It's scalene, shocking and massively unpredictable.

Warren United is a celebration of being a football fan

And Bill Freedman, the 84-year-old Arsenal supporter and show business veteran behind ITV4's new animated series, has advice for Arsene Wenger regarding his injury woes

Series 2 of Bluestone 42 was a triumph

Bluestone 42 continues its march towards being one of the funniest programmes on TV. Thank goodness that Series 2 is currently being trained to be deployed in the coming year. Don't miss it.

Audio - I've got That Sinking Feeling

Bill Forsyth's debut film That Sinking Feeling is out on disc this week. It's a personal favourite - and here's why.