British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide

BCG Daily Sunday 27th February 2022

Features

Nightingales. Image shows from L to R: Bell (David Threlfall), Carter (Robert Lindsay), Sarge (James Ellis) Features

Comedy Rewind: On the watch with Nightingales

Just what made Channel 4 comedy Nightingales, about a trio of security guards working an office block's graveyard shift, a fondly-remembered cult hit? Dark surrealism by the bucket-load, more than twenty years before many other comedies followed suit.

Press clippings

The Duke. Image shows from L to R: Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), Dorothy Bunton (Helen Mirren)

The Duke review

Jim Broadbent excels in true tale of ​art-stealing pensioner, writers Mark Kermode.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 27th February 2022
The Duke. Image shows from L to R: Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), Dorothy Bunton (Helen Mirren)

The Duke: Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren shine

How long does it take to realise that Jim Broadbent has, in Roger Michell's The Duke, happened upon one of his greatest screen roles? About five seconds.

Tom Shone, The Times, 27th February 2022
David Mitchell

David Mitchell: Why GB News is the new Findus lasagne

The news channel's prickliness after a BBC presenter made a passing joke about ratings only made it funnier.

The Guardian, 27th February 2022

Videos

Of Pints and Men. Image shows from L to R: Connor Byrne, Martin Soan Online

Of Pints and Men

5 mins, 72 secs

Roy is a solitary figure who doesn't take kindly to the presence of others in his local pub. And Earl just wants a good, honest pint.

TV & radio

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC 5:30pm
45 min
Dodger. Dodger (Billy Jenkins). Copyright: NBC

Dodger

Episode 4 - Mudlarks

Chief of Police Sir Charles Rowan becomes even more antagonised by Dodger, and Charley departs for an honest life.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn. Image shows from L to R: Tara Flynn, Marian Keyes

Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn

Series 1, Episode 8 - The Co-dependency Problem

Marian and Tara tackle the stresses of IVF, co-dependent relationships, red necks on Zoom and "window shopping" (not the good kind).

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
30 min
The Curse. Image shows from L to R: Sidney Wilson (Steve Stamp), Phil 'The Captain' Pocket (Hugo Chegwin)

The Curse

Series 1, Episode 4 - The Monkey And The Cat

A deeply troubled Albert throws himself into smelting gold as fast as Billy can sell it on.

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