BCG Daily Friday 22nd April 2022
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Falmouth Cringe comedy festival tickets announced
A new comedy festival, The Falmouth Cringe, is the first of its kind in the South West, organisers said.
BBC, 22nd April 2022
Chivalry review
Unfunny and unoriginal, Coogan's Hollywood satire misses the target.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 22nd April 2022
Chivalry review
Wily, low-key satire of post-MeToo Tinseltown.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 22nd April 2022
Chivalry review
Steve Coogan comedy skewers Hollywood's everyday sleaziness.
Flora Carr, Radio Times, 22nd April 2022
TV review: Chivalry, C4
Chivalry is not always laugh-out-loud hilarious but it makes plenty of pertinent points and the performances all round are strong.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd April 2022
Omid Djalili to lead the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebration on ITV
This celebratory event will be broadcast live on ITV from the private grounds of Windsor Castle on Sunday 15th May and is the first televised event to mark this historic occasion.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd April 2022
Daniel Kitson to play Regents Park, and tour
Daniel Kitson is returning to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for a series of gigs this summer - and will also tour with his new work-in-progress show Outside.
Chortle, 22nd April 2022
How Ghosts adapted its story for an American audience
The first season CBS's Ghosts became the rare successful American adaptation of a British sitcom. Here's how.
Amanda-Rae Prescott, Den Of Geek, 22nd April 2022
Crumbling pub from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet to be put back into use
"The Grade II* listed Captain Cook, which once starred in TV comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, is an important remnant of [Middlesbrough's] proud past, sitting in the shadow of the Transporter Bridge."
Georgia Banks, Teesside Gazette, 22nd April 2022
Bill Bailey pays tribute to Sean Lock on what would have been his 59th Birthday
Bailey and Lock had been friends for three decades.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd April 2022Podcasts
TV & radio
11:30am30 min
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?
Series 1, Episode 3Selina'' close personal ex-husband Andrew has died and - much to Florence's rage and fury - left her a small Picasso. Meanwhile the murky waters of daughter Lucy's parentage are stirred as Florence's PA Mrs Ragnarrok has a mysterious meeting with Jonathan, who happens to be Lucy's father. Unaware of any of this, Lucy continues to plan the round-the-world yacht voyage that everyone has completely forgotten she is about to undertake.
1:30pm30 min
Breaking The News
Series 21, Episode 10Des Clarke is joined by Neil Delamere, Marjolein Robertson, Krystal Evans & Chris Thorburn.
6:30pm30 min
The News Quiz
Series 108, Episode 1Andy Zaltzman returns for a new series, with guests Hugo Rifkind, Daliso Chaponda, Eleanor Tiernan and Felicity Ward.
9pm30 min
Have I Got News For You
Series 63, Episode 4Mel Giedroyc hosts this episode, with Richard Osman and Observer columnist Sonia Sodha as the guests.
9:30pm30 min
Not Going Out
Series 12, Episode 5 - JuryLee does jury service and joins eleven other jurors in the jury room to debate whether the accused is guilty or not. A simple enough task - until he decides to put the other jurors on trial.