BCG Daily Wednesday 5th January 2022
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Toast Of Tinseltown review
Toast is hot stuff - with more laughs in 30 minutes than in most sitcom series.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 5th January 2022
Toast Of Tinseltown review
Soho's favourite thespian is back.
James Jackson, The Times, 5th January 2022
BBC Radio 2 announces Ultimate Rom-Com listener vote
Radio 2 has launched a vote for Your Ultimate Rom-Com. Radio 2's resident movie critic James King unveiled the list of his favourite romantic comedies in Jo Whiley's show (with presenter Will Young sitting in).
BBC, 5th January 2022
The Play What I Wrote to embark on tour
The show will feature surprise guests at each stop.
Alex Wood, What's On Stage, 5th January 2022
Steven Toast: One of the best comic creations of the last 10 years
The Fellini of failure's return in BBC sitcom Toast Of Tinseltown is a long-awaited chance to catch up with a televisual joy - who has more in common with most of us than we'd like to admit.
James Donaghy, The Guardian, 5th January 2022
Funny Women - we are recruiting!
We have an exciting opportunity for a web and social media assistant to join our team here at Funny Women for a paid six-month job placement. This is open to anybody claiming Universal Credit and aged between 16 and 24, as part of the DWP Kickstart Scheme.
Funny Women, 5th January 2022
Jimmy Carr gives contestant £18,000 after I Literally Just Told You mistake
Jimmy Carr's telly quiz I Literally Just Told You does what it says on the tin, with all the answers given throughout the show. Well, that's apart from the occasion they forgot to do just that - leaving one contestant empty handed.
Rod McPhee, The Sun, 5th January 2022
Antique Mo-show
He's made his name hosting The Big Narstie Show alongside the eponymous grime star, but Mo Gilligan has far loftier career aspirations.
The comedian, who's currently on air with The Masked Singer, is gunning for Fiona Bruce's job presenting Antiques Roadshow.
Rod McPhee, The Sun, 5th January 2022
TV review: Mandy, BBC Two
Diane Morgan is set to have another big year with a new series of Philomena Cunk in the pipeline, but it's Mandy that feels like her real passion project - she stars, writes and directs here. And now starting its second series following a very slightly extended Christmas one-off it is really starting to find its feet.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th January 2022
Mandy, BBC2, review
Diane Morgan's comedy is knife-sharp, gleefully silly and a bit tired.
Gwendolyn Smith, i Newspaper, 5th January 2022
Mandy review
Slap my bum and call me a satanist! Diane Morgan is back.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 5th January 2022Videos
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Subterranean Homesick Blues
Series 5, Episode 3 - Don't Think Twice It's AlrightJohn & Maggie go to view a flat in a gated community and find themselves at odds with the owners and going head to head with the garden foliage.
10pm65 min
I Literally Just Told You
Series 1, Episode 4Jimmy Carr hosts this new game show in which contestants are given every answer with the questions written, literally, as the show is happening.
10pm15 min
Mandy
Series 2, Episode 1 - The Unpleasantness At Brampton HallUnpleasantness comes in many forms. Like when you pick up an apple from the fruit bowl and find the hidden side has decomposed. The unpleasantness at Brampton Hall is different. So forget we said that. Contains the worst kind of nudity.
10:15pm15 min
Mandy
Series 2, Episode 2 - Who Are You, Do You Think?Mandy accidentally finds herself on the programme Who Are You, Do You Think - a fictional genealogy programme that is in no way parodying the real-life genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?. Not at all. We've never even seen it.