BCG Daily Sunday 8th August 2021

Buffering review

If it all sounds fairly indulgent, putting your life on screen right after the latest bulletin from Love Island's baby-oiled, Balearic-based Brains Trust, then you should know that Jedward aren't involved. And Buffering has some funny lines.

Rosie Jones interview

"I didn't have disabled heroes in books to look up to as a child, so I've now created my own."

Stewart Lee: Tory values? Urination, urination...

Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen knows the real reason for empty shelves is working-class people going to university.

Q&A with Isabelle Farah

Isabelle Farah is a British-Lebanese actor, comedian, and writer, whose Edinburgh Fringe show Ellipsis, at Assembly Roxy, looks at the public and private faces of grief, suicide bereavement, and authenticity...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge praises "heroism" of Fringe

"We have a lot of time to make up for and this festival is more than ready for you".

Online Fringe review: Dominic Frisby - Adam Smith

If you have made it to Edinburgh - whether as a punter or a performer - why not get the full intel on the Edinburgh Fringe by watching Dominic Frisby's illuminating documentary film about the history of the Festival? In fact it's an online show so if you have any interest in Fringe history and you are anywhere in the world this month this will do much to fill in the gaps.

Sky's headache after Buzzcocks guest charged

Sky bosses now have a major headache to deal with after rapper Dizzee Rascal was charged with assault.

They're in the process of rebooting classic music panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks - and Dizzee features in the pilot.