BCG Daily Saturday 20th September 2014

Plebs: 'Rome allows us to bring in gladiators & orgies'

It's Horrible Histories meets The Inbetweeners - ITV2's hit sitcom may be built on a bedrock of puerile humour, but you might learn something too.

Would I Lie to You? review

Did Kirsty Wark steal Jeremy Paxman's Snoopy mug? This game show is funny enough that the truth doesn't matter.

Splash! and Tumble are too far fetched for W1A

John Morton: "If I had been writing that in a draft for a script before it happened, I would have thought, 'No, who are you kidding?'"

Radio Times review

"Tonight you may call me George." How often does Wilson receive such an invitation from his commanding officer? The captain throws open the doors of Mainwaring manor for a "civilian" shindig, and the prospect of actually seeing his spouse - she of bunkbed-bulging proportions and ear-splitting telephone manner - tantalises us like never before...

Less of a party and more of a wake, the bash is put out of its misery by an air raid - and a direct hit on the bank. So what to do with the money? It's an interesting, curiously mean-spirited outing, full of muttered put-downs and surly suspicion. Also some 18-carat lines, and a beautifully filmed finale.

Graham Norton: 'Some guests don't get the humour'

He's been doing his BBC talk show for so long, it's hard to imagine Graham Norton gets excited about its return each September for another long run. But as the Irish sultan of chat prepares to settle back into his swivel chair for the start of next Friday's 16th series, he's thrilled to be back.

Dave Spikey interview

Dave Spikey talks about what the audience can expect ahead of his tour show Punchlines.

Stand-up's other type of double acts - marriage

I heard recently that a rising comedy star had split up with her boyfriend, a fellow comedian. Nothing unusual about that, you might say. Relationships sadly come and go. But it did strike me as unusual because at the moment stand-ups seem to be doing a lot more coupling than consciously uncoupling.

Jason Manford interview

Jason Manford has revealed he wants a Sir Bruce Forsyth style career path after landing a job hosting Sunday Night At The Palladium.

Plebs 2 preview

What to expect from the new series; prostitution, sex, drugs, a stag do and a baby... not forgetting the best series yet.

QI's quite indecently tricky quiz

To celebrate the new season of QI, the team behind the hit TV show has come up with 20 questions. It's one 'L' of a challenge... are you up for it?

Interview: the stars of new sitcom Scrotal Recall

Channel 4's new sitcom Scrotal Recall stars Johnny Flynn as Dylan Witter, who is told that he has chlamydia and has to track down his previous sexual partners. It is written by Tom Edge of YouTube superstars The Midnight Beast and is, erm, transmitted from October 2. Dylan's mates Evie and Luke are played by Antonia Thomas and Daniel Ings. In this interview they talk about the perils of corpsing, the atmosphere on set plus the baking of rock'n'roll pies.

Review: Steve Day Faces The Deaf Sentence

Some asides are enjoyable; especially a story about a Paralympics event that shows Boris Johnson's true colours, and Day has a few nice throwaway lines as he takes us through his story, gaining our sympathy at what he's forced to endure. It's just that the story itself isn't involving enough for the weight he's given it.

Sarah Hadland, Angela Curran, Laura Aikman interview

I spoke to Sarah Hadland who plays the manager of Brownall Job Centre, Angela Curran who plays security guard Janette and Laura Aikman who joins the cast for Series 2 playing deputy manager Natalie. Here's what they each had to say...

Ha Ha Hood's comedy had audience all of a quiver

In keeping with Robin Hood analogies, this show will have you all of a comedy quiver - it is rich in humour and none of it is poor.

Scotland reunited by a love for Jack and Victor

Last night thousands flocked to the SSE Hydro in Glasgow for the first performance of the much-anticipated Still Game stage show.

Review: Still Game

Given that it was the over 60s demographic that swung the victory for the No camp in this week's Scottish independence referendum, it's something of a surprise that Scotland's most curmudgeonly OAP double act, Jack and Victor, didn't lay their cards on the table last night.