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BCG Daily Thursday 13th January 2022

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The Play What I Wrote. Image shows from L to R: Dennis Herdman, Tom Hiddleston, Thom Tuck TV

Tom Hiddleston to star in BBC broadcast of The Play What I Wrote

The BBC is to broadcast a recording of live stage show The Play What I Wrote, featuring guest star Tom Hiddleston.

Press clippings

Markus Birdman

Markus Birdman talks about his health issues

Stand-up Markus Birdman has spoken about how comedy helped him deal with the effects of suffering two strokes.

Chortle, 13th January 2022
Good Omens. Image shows from L to R: Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), Crowley (David Tennant)

Pictures: Michael Sheen and Jon Hamm filming Good Omens

Edinburgh's limestone streets provided the backdrop on Tuesday as Michael Sheen and Jon Hamm filmed their first scenes for the second season of popular fantasy comedy drama Good Omens.

Jason Chester, Daily Mail, 13th January 2022
The Play What I Wrote. Image shows from L to R: Dennis Herdman, Tom Hiddleston, Thom Tuck

The Play What I Wrote review

A nostalgic treat which will disappoint nobody.

Jacob Newbury, British Theatre Guide, 13th January 2022
Ricky Gervais

Why comedians love to hate Ricky Gervais

The After Life star's 'edgy' brand of sentimentality has made him more popular than ever - except with his peers.

Stephen Armstrong, The Telegraph, 13th January 2022
Murder In Successville. Image shows from L to R: Jamie Laing, Dermot O'Leary, Deborah Meaden, DI Sleet (Tom Davis), Greg James, Kimberly Wyatt, Louis Smith. Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Will Arnett to star in Murder In Successville remake

Will Arnett has secured the rights to adapt the BAFTA award-winning BBC Three series Murder In Successville.

Hollywood Reporter, 13th January 2022
Stage Door

The Rubber Merchants review

This revival of Hanoch Levin's odd, over-long 1970s play has minor thrills but ultimately misfires.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 13th January 2022
Alan Carr Yap, Yap, Yap!. Alan Carr. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Alan Carr review

A winningly frothy celebration of the fame game.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 13th January 2022
Katherine Ryan

Katherine Ryan believes baby son may have autoimmune condition

Katherine Ryan believes her baby son, Fred, may have an autoimmune condition as she detailed the seven-month-old's symptoms.

Mel Evans, Metro, 13th January 2022
Sykes. Image shows from L to R: Corky Turnbull (Deryck Guyler), Eric Sykes (Eric Sykes), Hattie Sykes (Hattie Jacques). Copyright: BBC

Robin Le Mesurier obituary

Obituary of Robin Le Mesurier, musician and son of Hattie Jacques and John Le Mesurier, whose boyhood antics inspired an episode of Sykes.

The Times, 13th January 2022

Videos

Image shows from L to R: Alison Thea-Skot, Rajiv Karia, Tessa Coates Online

Women Make Better Films

2 mins, 19 secs

Wouldn't movies and TV be so better if women made all the commissioning decisions? Wouldn't our entertainment at a stroke become more tasteful and sophisticated? We would at last surely eliminate all that gratuitous on-screen violence and inappropriate flesh forced on us by all those male TV executives. We have been invited to follow one all-female production company to show this brave new world, a beautiful future that offers us classier, more inclusive, and intelligent entertainment on TV and the cinema silver screen.

Celebrity Rebrand. Amelia Dimoldenberg Online

Celebrity Rebrand - Romesh Ranganathan

9 mins, 23 secs

It's a new year and a new brand for Romesh Ranganathan. Amelia Dimoldenberg has her famous celebrity rebranding skills cut out trying to turn Romesh into the latest TikTok superstar. Can she do it?

Paul Longley Online

At Home With... Nick Mullins

7 mins, 55 secs

The At Home With... team spends some time with football referee Nick Mullins, a man who has dreamt of being a referee since he was a child. We follow Nick as he copes with life in lockdown during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has kept him away from his beloved job. Nick opens up and gives us an insight into his life, his passions and his dreams for the future.

Holly Hall Online

An actor gets pencilled for a job

37 secs

What does it mean when an actor is 'pencilled'?

Podcasts

Sitcom Geeks

Sitcom Geeks: Episode 183 - The Secrets Of Comedy Writing Success

41 minutes

Work deep, build habits. Dave and James return from the break with great ideas to improve your writing productivity and increase fun. Plus a great new topical opportunity for 2022.

TV & radio

Union Jack 7pm
60 min
Dead British

Dead British

Episode 2 - Sir Isaac Newton

They were British, they were dead, but using a Neutrino accelerator and NutriBullet blender, Dead British brings back to life... Sir Isaac Newton! It's the completely unpredictable improv history show where anything could happen.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 9pm
60 min
Screw. Image shows from L to R: Rose Gill (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), Troy Walker (Riley Carter)

Screw

Series 1, Episode 2

Leigh Henry comes under increased pressure to produce her birth certificate to secure the promotion she so desperately wants.

BBC Scotland channel. Copyright: BBC 10pm
30 min
Scot Squad. Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (Jack Docherty)

Scot Squad

Series 7, Episode 2

A reckless driver on the wrong side of the road turns out to be a visitor from overseas who wants to experience the delights of Scottish fast food. Fortunately, that is right up traffic officer Hugh McKirdy's street. He gleefully shares his expertise on all things deep-fried as this fast food vlogger records her next online episode.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
The Nether Regions. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Nether Regions

Episode 2

Featuring 1920s English Batman having trouble with his new hotline, the 1970s cop show Oh My God - A Woman's In Charge and further fun from Jane Austen's Love Island.

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