BCG Daily Thursday 24th February 2022
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Frayed, Sky Max, review
Sarah Kendall's comedy deserves a bigger audience.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 24th February 2022
Dad stole a £2.8m painting... now his story is a new film
Trailers and publicity for the film would have you believe that Broadbent's character Kempton Bunton carried out the daring art heist - but the thief was actually the driver's son, Jackie. 45-year-old grandson Chris tells The Sun: "My grandad witnessed his own dad come back from the war disabled and ending up isolated and alone."
The Sun, 24th February 2022
Live show for Romesh Ranganathan & Tom Davis podcast Wolf And Owl
Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis are bringing their hit podcast Wolf & Owl to Hackney Empire on March 24 for a live special.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th February 2022
The Duke review
A jolly throwback to a time when flip, breezy British comedies came freighted with substance, and lots of charismatic performances to boot.
Little White Lies, 24th February 2022
Armando Iannucci interview
"Everything since 2016 has been a wind-up".
Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 24th February 2022
Digital series for Desiree Burch
Award-winning digital content agency and media network Little Dot Studios has commissioned and produced a digital series, titled Profiles In Fatness, in partnership with Desiree Burch, which launches today on the comedian's YouTube channel.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th February 2022
Billy Connolly Does... review
Criminally entertaining yarns from the Big Yin.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 24th February 2022
The Duke, review
Jim Broadbent is exceptional in this emotional underdog comedy.
Geoffrey Macnab, i Newspaper, 24th February 2022
Billy Connolly fans launch campaign to name new River Clyde bridge after him
Fans are calling for a new bridge in Glasgow to be named after Billy Connolly.
Harry Williamson, The Scottish Sun, 24th February 2022
Getting to the bottom of comedy's cancel culture
Comedy is about saying the unsayable but in a fast-changing landscape it's hard to know what is acceptable, says #CancelKarenDunbar director Anne-Claire Pilley.
Anne-Claire Pilley, Broadcast, 24th February 2022Videos
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2:15pm45 min
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Series 4, Episode 9 - Time DecaysAn idyllic Shakespeare walk soon turns to disaster when one of the walkers is murdered and Frank becomes the prime suspect.
4:30pm60 min
7pm60 min
Dead British
Episode 8 - Beatrix PotterShe was British, she was dead, but Beatrix Potter is back to talk rabbits, nature and mafia connections in another totally improvised episode.
9pm60 min
Billy Connolly Does...
Series 1, Episode 1 - Bad BehaviourBritain's funniest national treasure revels in his own and others' bad behaviour. Keith Moon also makes an appearance, as does a truck full of snakes as Billy recounts wild tales of sex, booze and assaulting salesmen with bowls of trifle!
10pm60 min
#CancelKarenDunbar
Karen considers how comedians navigate taste and people's sensibilities in the current cancel culture climate, exploring the new boundaries of offence. She finds out what has been cut out of her old shows for re-broadcast, and talks to comedians Greg Hemphill, Leo Kearse and Eliott Simpson, and free-speech podcasters Konstantin Kisin and Frances Foster from Triggernometry.