BCG Daily Thursday 10th February 2022
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Notting Hill named as nation's favourite romcom in Radio 2 poll
Notting Hill has topped a Radio 2 poll of listeners as the 1999 romantic comedy has been named as the nation's favourite flick.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 10th February 2022
What medical shows get right and wrong
New BBC series This is Going To Hurt depicts the exhausting life of a British doctor with dark comedy. And it might be the most realistic hospital drama yet, writes Richard Fisher.
Richard Fisher, BBC, 10th February 2022
Fans struggle for refunds as Comedy In The Park gigs cancelled
A string of major comedy events have been cancelled following the collapse of its promoter - leaving ticket-holders out of pocket. John Bishop was to headline a string of Comedy In The Park gigs, in which he would have been joined by the likes of Jason Manford, Rob Beckett, Al Murray, Katherine Ryan and Dara O Briain. But promoter M&B Promotions has now stopped trading, blaming the Covid pandemic.
Chortle, 10th February 2022
Jimmy Carr's cancelling marks the long, sad death of comedy... not
Comedy is dying... It's end, often prophesied, is finally here. We know it's real because Jimmy Carr has said so and he should know. The World's Last-Standing Stand-Up has been widely condemned for making a joke about the murder of gypsies at the hands of Nazis during the Holocaust and that, he claims, proves his point: you can't make a joke about anything these days.
David Waywell, Reaction, 10th February 2022
Jimmy Carr must be free to say the unsayable
The government has no business decreeing what is funny.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 10th February 2022
Review: Martin Fishback, BBC
Tactless, middle-class dad Martin Fishback wants to become a crime-writer... This is a small modest pilot, which is apt, because Fishback is a small, modest man. In the most boring suburban clothes in Christendom. With the most boring suburban voice in Christendom too. And very funny.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th February 2022
This Is Going To Hurt was very eye-popping and I did really enjoy it
The combination of gallows humour and bloody gore is not the most shocking and disturbing thing about this series though. No, what really strikes you is that it is set in 2006, long before Brexit, Covid and our current Tory overlords began doing their stuff. I mean, if NHS staff and patients had it this tough back then...
Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th February 2022
A former HMP inmate on Screw
Drug-smuggling officers, prisoners refusing to eat Halal and a lack of mental health support: Channel 4's prison drama is packed with scenes that ring true time and time again.
Eric Allison, The Guardian, 10th February 2022
What frontline doctors think about This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay's adaptation of his medical memoir has great reviews. But how accurate is its bloody, barmy vision of life in the NHS trenches?
Alex Diggins, The Telegraph, 10th February 2022Videos
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