British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide

BCG Daily Sunday 27th June 2021

Features

Come Back Mrs. Noah. Mrs Gertrude Noah (Mollie Sugden). Copyright: BBC Features

Comedy Chronicles: Stranger Things - When sitcoms strain to be different

Difference is good. Experimentation is to be lauded. But in a handful of cases, television sitcoms have made difference itself their raison d'être, rather than a factor in their storytelling.

Press clippings

Ricky Gervais

Gervais snubs £5 million to host billionaire weddings

Ricky Gervais has revealed why he snubs up to £5 million to host billionaire weddings.

Jill Robinson, The Sun, 27th June 2021
Breeders. Image shows from L to R: Paul (Martin Freeman), Jim (Alun Armstrong), Jackie (Joanna Bacon), Ally (Daisy Haggard). Copyright: Avalon Television

Read a dark script from parenting comedy Breeders

Simon Blackwell explains the episode contains a "pivotal piece of action" around which the entire second season was built, something the co-creator says is a "gamble" but "very satisfying."

Deadline, 27th June 2021

Videos

Archie Henderson Online

How To Deliver An Anticlimax

24 secs

Never give them what they want.

TV & radio

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Hennikay. Guy (Bill Bailey). Copyright: CPL Productions

Hennikay

Episode 1 - Pilot

Bill Bailey stars as a stressed-out businessman, whose big day at work is unexpectedly interrupted by someone he hasn't seen for 45 years; his imaginary childhood friend Hennikay.

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