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BCG Daily Friday 4th June 2021

News

Paddy McGuinness. Copyright: Ebury Press Shop

Paddy McGuinness announces autobiography My Lifey

Paddy McGuinness has written his autobiography. My Lifey will be published at the end of October by Ebury.

BCG Pro

John-Luke Roberts Pro

My Comedy Career: John-Luke Roberts

Comedian John-Luke Roberts - the man behind the Sound Heap podcast - talks about the importance of patience, overcoming disappointment and sticking to your guns.

Press clippings

Sliced. Image shows from L to R: Joshua (Samson Kayo), Ricky (Theo Barklem-Biggs). Copyright: Lovely Electricity

Sliced review

When this comedy launched two years ago, I called it 'filthy but funny'. The foul language has been dialled down a notch. Not so filthy now -- and still funny.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 4th June 2021
Dream Horse. Image shows from L to R: Jan Vokes (Toni Collette), Brian (Owen Teale). Copyright: Warner

Dream Horse review

A celebration of community that feels natural.

Dulcie Pearce, The Sun, 4th June 2021
Dream Horse. Image shows from L to R: Jan Vokes (Toni Collette), Brian (Owen Teale). Copyright: Warner

Dream Horse review

Cinemas are open, so the feel-good Brit comedy is back.

Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Mae (Mae Martin). Copyright: Objective Productions

Feel Good Series 2 review

Unpacking the intensity of falling in love, the pain of addiction and the nervous excitement of building a career, Feel Good's second series is a near-perfect continuation of its funny and thought-provoking story.

Alicia Lansom, Refinery 29, 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Mae (Mae Martin). Copyright: Objective Productions

Feel Good Series 2 review

Mae Martin's queer love story is a deadpan delight.

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 4th June 2021
Dream Horse. Image shows from L to R: Jan Vokes (Toni Collette), Brian (Owen Teale). Copyright: Warner

Dream Horse and the Cefn Fforest community

The heartwarming story of how a South Wales community trained a Welsh Grand National-winning racehorse comes to the big screen today.

Nicholas Thomas, The National (Wales), 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Mae (Mae Martin). Copyright: Objective Productions

Feel Good Series 2 review

BAFTA-nominated 'sadcom' tackles millennial angst with verve.

Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 4th June 2021
Mrs. Brown's Boys. Image shows from L to R: Buster Brady (Danny O'Carroll), Grandad Brown (Dermot O'Neill), Dino Doyle (Gary Hollywood), Rory Brown (Rory Cowan), Cathy Brown (Jennifer Gibney), Mark Brown (Pat Shields), Betty Brown (Amanda Woods), Winnie McGoogan (Eilish O'Carroll), Dermot Brown (Paddy Houlihan), Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll), Maria Nicholson / Brown (Fiona O'Carroll). Copyright: BBC / BocPix

Mrs Brown's Boys tour dates announced

Mrs Brown D'Live Show...Encore Tour will now take place in June and July 2022 with all tickets remaining valid for the rescheduled dates.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th June 2021
Sex Education. Image shows from L to R: Eric Effiong (Ncuti Gatwa), Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey), Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield). Copyright: Eleven Film

Sex Education star confirms Series 4 discussions

Aimee Lou Wood, who plays Aimee Gibbs in Sex Education, has confirmed that she's already in discussions for season four - which has yet to be officially announced by Netflix.

Flora Carr, Radio Times, 4th June 2021
Carry On Camping. Barbara (Barbara Windsor). Copyright: Peter Rogers Productions

Barbara Windsor's 'Carry On Camping' bikini auctioned

The famous bikini worn by the late Dame Barbara Windsor in Carry On Camping is going up for auction. The chartreuse cotton towelling bikini is being sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions and is estimated to fetch between £800 and £1,200.

Robin Perrie, Press Association, 4th June 2021
Comedy Club

Comedy is back in business at Preston's brand new club

After spending more than 14 months off-stage due to the Covid-19 pandemic, comedian Steve Harris has become the resident host of Preston's brand new comedy club, the ROFL Club.

James Holt, The Lancashire Evening Post, 4th June 2021
Intelligence. Image shows from L to R: Joseph Harries (Nick Mohammed), Jerry Bernstein (David Schwimmer)

Intelligence: predictable yet pleasurable comedy

Series two of the GCHQ-set farce, starring David Schwimmer, treads familiar ground.

Suzi Feay, The Financial Times, 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Image shows from L to R: Mae (Mae Martin), George (Charlotte Ritchie)

Feel Good Series 2 review

Mae Martin's queer romcom is sublime.

Rachael Sigee, i Newspaper, 4th June 2021
Image shows from L to R: Maddy Bye, Marina Bye

Brighton Fringe review - Siblings and Sami - The Warren

A fantastic wayward mix of idiot and further idiot Siblings are ones to watch; the future of UK sketch comedy. Or, at the very least, simply two funny women pratting around making an audience thoroughly tickled by their antics. Either way the result is a joy to behold.

Simon Topping, The Reviews Hub, 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Image shows from L to R: Mae (Mae Martin), George (Charlotte Ritchie)

Feel Good Series 2 review

Introspective comedy-drama achieves closure with many belly laughs amid the soul searching.

Brian Donaldson, The List, 4th June 2021
This Time With Alan Partridge. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Steve Coogan dedicates This Time to late nephew Will

A touching tribute was left at the end of the BBC's This Time With Alan Partridge series on Friday night.

Dianne Bourne, Manchester Evening News, 4th June 2021
Orlando Gibbs

Review: Orlando Gibbs - Shane Warne Odyssey

In 2013 Orlando Gibbs spent a brief car journey with Australian cricketing spin bowling legend, Shane Warne. Gibbs was driven to his home to tutor Warne's then partner's (Elizabeth Hurley) child. This comedy show is not exactly that story, but a larger, fabricated, tale of what may have happened if Warne and Gibbs were hounded on the trip by a vengeful tabloid press and the paparazzi.

Simon Topping, The Reviews Hub, 4th June 2021
Feel Good. Image shows from L to R: Mae (Mae Martin), George (Charlotte Ritchie)

Mae Martin and Charlotte Ritchie interview

Mae Martin and Charlotte Ritchie are trying to explain the new series of their comedy drama Feel Good, and they're struggling.

Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 4th June 2021
Blackpool Tower

Comedy club responds to inaccurate TripAdvisor review

The host of a Blackpool comedy club has published a cutting response to a one-star reviewer who went to the wrong venue.

Rachel Howarth, Lancs Live, 4th June 2021

Videos

Alasdair Beckett-King Online

You Can't See Memes on the Radio

1 mins, 13 secs

The hottest memes on 1940s radio.

Have I Got News For You. Aisling Bea TV

Have I Got News For You - Boris Johnson's wedding

1 mins, 8 secs

A look at how the PM was able to hold his secret wedding.

Patrick Spicer Online

If You Get Cancelled...

1 mins, 59 secs

Cancel Culture is rife. Say or do the wrong thing - you know you will get cancelled. This is what actually happens when you get cancelled.

Meet The Richardsons. Image shows from L to R: Jon (Jon Richardson), Lucy (Lucy Beaumont) TV

Meet The Richardsons - Outtakes and Unseen Extras

2 mins, 50 secs

Surely a TV show featuring Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont is a seamless production? Far from it.

The Green & Pleasant Guide Online

The Green & Pleasant Guide - Cows

3 mins, 16 secs

From their friendly manner to their tasty minced flesh, cows are always there for us. We sample milk straight from the udder, meet a demented farmer who breeds cows with goats, and ask where our bovine friends go to at night.

TV & radio

YouTube 9am
28 min
No More Jockeys. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Alex Horne, Tim Key

No More Jockeys

Set 4, Episode 1 - Set 4, Game 1

We enter the fourth set, with the match currently standing at two sets to Alex Horne, none to Tim Key and one to Mark Watson. Key to play...

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop. Alfie Moore. Copyright: BBC

Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop

Series 6, Episode 6 - Policing Covid

In this show Alfie and his audience cops tackle the issues around policing Covid.

BBC Radio Scotland 1:30pm
30 min
Mark Nelson

The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected

Series 8, Episode 6

In the last of the series, Mark is joined by the Reverend Kate Bottley who shares many a tale from behind the lectern, Farmer Jim Smith celebrates the birth of his first daughter and Hal Cruttenden reveals just how badly he's coped with lockdown.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 105, Episode 8

Andy Zaltzman is joined this week by Andrew Maxwell, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Alex Massie and Ria Lina.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
30 min
Have I Got News For You. Aisling Bea

Have I Got News For You

Series 61, Episode 9

Aisling Bea takes to the host's chair for her programme debut. Ian and Paul are joined by comedian and actor Roisin Conaty & BBC newsreader and the recently-announced new host of Mastermind, Clive Myrie.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9:30pm
30 min
This Time With Alan Partridge. Image shows from L to R: Professor Rebecca Burns (Eleanor Matsuura), Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

This Time With Alan Partridge

Series 2, Episode 6

A special regal edition sees a member of the Royal family welcomed to the studio. But can Alan maintain his dignity in the face of a career-defining setback?

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
60 min
The Last Leg. Image shows from L to R: Josh Widdicombe, Adam Hills, Alex Brooker

The Last Leg

Series 22, Episode 1

Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by celebrity guests Rob Beckett and Sara Pascoe for a comic review of the significant moments of the past seven days.

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