BCG Daily Friday 15th April 2022

Taskmaster review

The overgrown adolescents on Taskmaster (C4) are recreating childhood, which is what makes this show such gloriously innocent fun.

Ray Bradshaw: From council worker to playing arenas with John Bishop

Heard the one about the up-and-coming comic who lost all his regular income during Covid and is now playing the country's biggest arenas? Ray Bradshaw took a job offering people employment advice when the pandemic struck - and he's certainly enjoying the last laugh.

Tributes as former Gilded Balloon manager Mick Bateman dies

Tributes have been paid to former Gilded Balloon manager Mick Bateman who has died at the age of 60.

Taskmaster star sets new record for show in Episode 1

The winner of the Series 13 opener set a new record for the highest first episode score in the show's history.

Jim Davidson slammed over grim women footballers joke

Jim Davidson has been criticised after suggesting women footballers 'lift their tops up' while discussing emotions in football on GB News.

Paul Sinha says husband helps him get dressed amid Parkinson's battle

Paul Sinha spoke of how his husband Oliver Levy helped him get dressed this morning ahead of a TV appearance due to his Parkinson's, telling Loose Women panellists: 'Everything you usually take for granted just takes longer'.

Peter Kay's Dance for Life review

The comedian makes joyous return to stage in Manchester with huge dance party.

Quiz: Which girl from Derry Girls are you're most like?

Are you the type to wear a shellsuit to prom, or are you more likely to set fire to some curtains?

Why the stars are desperate to step Inside No. 9

After seven series you'd think Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton would be running out of ideas, but their imaginations and collaborative powers are still as productive as ever.

Francine Lewis scammed out of £90,000

Britain's Got Talent star Francine Lewis has revealed her heartbreak after being scammed out of £90,000 by a phoney stocks company.

Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre review

It's bad luck for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, that their new Mike Bartlett play is the last of the trio of productions written by him that have opened in close succession. Following the stylish Cock, about modern sexual mores, and the coruscating The 47th, a drama in Shakespearean blank verse about the threat to democracy from authoritarianism, Scandaltown feels a touch underwhelming.

It's shaped as a pastiche of a Restoration comedy, and it is, in truth, extremely funny at times. But it is more like a pantomime or even a fairy tale than a sparkling satire. Its targets, all given the names that define character, are pretty soggy and predictable

Review: Choose Or Die on Netflix

Iola Evans plays a cash-strapped college kid named Kayla who gets immersed in a dangerous video game in Choose Or Die, a frequently disturbing horror film with echoes of Saw, Ready Player One and A Nightmare On Elm Street.