BCG Daily Sunday 16th May 2021
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Aidan Smith's TV week: The Pursuit of Love, Motherland
By rights I should hate it. A big house, daft hats, frivolous flibbertigibbets. Two of the stars having an off-set fling which the cynical - me - suspected might have been a stunt to whip up pre-publicity. And being urged to watch, as if under orders from Matt Hancock, because a dollop of escapism is Just What The Country Needs Right Now. But I love The Pursuit Of Love.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 16th May 2021
Nish Kumar: 'Do they just hate my jokes?'
Nish Kumar considers himself a mild-mannered British Asian man who does comedy. So why does he attract so much rage from the rightwing press and social media?
Tom Lamont, The Observer, 16th May 2021
Joanna Scanlan interview
Loved for her biting comedy roles, the actor is enjoying a late-blooming career. She talks about playing a convert to Islam in After Love, and her TV series about women's sex lives during lockdown.
Claire Armitstead, The Observer, 16th May 2021
The week in TV: The Pursuit of Love; Motherland
Uncle Matthew and co ride again in Emily Mortimer's gleeful Nancy Mitford adaptation.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 16th May 2021
Nish Kumar: BBC must be clear over Mash Report axe
The BBC must put an end to the "useful myth" it has cracked down on left-wing comedy, according to the satirist Nish Kumar. Either that, or it should admit that a so-called "war on woke" really did happen.
Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 16th May 2021
Pity the poor stand-up in Boris Johnson's kleptocracy
Stewart Lee asks how's a comedian supposed to be keep pace with this ever more farcical government and its diktats?
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 16th May 2021
Simon Bird: Debrief review
The Inbetweeners star plays on his first TV special's lack of audience by claiming high sophistication - while deftly pricking the bubble with pretend banter.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16th May 2021
Scottish comedy industry warns it is on the brink
The Scottish comedy world has warned the industry has been left on the brink of collapse by Scottish Government guidelines which mean clubs cannot reopen unless they enforce two metre social distancing on audiences.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 16th May 2021
The Pursuit Of Love, episode 2 review
A huge improvement, but Andrew Scott still steals the show.
Susannah Goldsbrough, The Telegraph, 16th May 2021
Geoff Norcott book review
Who is Geoff Norcott? You'd be forgiven for replying: I'm sorry, I haven't a clue. He has written for this paper and pops up on TV. But compared to the leviathans he swims alongside in the comedy pool - your Michael McIntyres, your Frankie Boyles - he's a minnow; on the rise, for sure, but not the sort of star whose memoir you'd race to buy at the hour of its publication. "What" is Geoff Norcott, however, is a more interesting question.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 16th May 2021
A Life In The Day: Steve Pemberton
"I've never been a morning person. Ideally I'd always have a lie-in, but having three children soon knocks that out of you, so on average I'll be up around 7.30."
Nick Duerden, The Times, 16th May 2021
Anna Maxwell Martin: the devil or everymum
The actress, now playing for laughs in Motherland, is a face that fits many roles.
Stephen Armstrong, The Times, 16th May 2021Videos
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7:15pm30 min
The Confessional
Series 1, Episode 5 - Marian KayesThis week the prolific novelist and writer Marian Keyes confesses, from her home in Dublin, details of a disservice she did that still haunts her 20 years after the event. She also tells tales of a lost glove and of Joan of Arc at a fancy dress ball.
9pm60 min
The Pursuit Of Love
Episode 2Although both Linda and Fanny are now married, their lives couldn't be more different.