BCG Daily Saturday 14th May 2022
Press clippings
Where are the new classic sitcoms?
When The One Show recently ran a poll to find the best-loved BBC shows ever, half of the top programmes were sitcoms - but none was launched within the last 15 years. So where are the future classics?
Ian Youngs, BBC, 14th May 2022
'What an unpleasant man': Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan
Actor and comedian Steve Coogan claims there are next to no skeletons left in his closet. So we sent the only man we knew could unearth them.
Alan Partridge (Additional reporting by Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Rich Pelley), The Guardian, 14th May 2022
Biscuit Barrel: No Time To Digestive review
Biscuit Barrel: No Time To Digestive is a whistlestop sketch show that ate and left no crumbs.
Amy Betteridge, Broadway Baby, 14th May 2022
Alan Partridge delivers ruddy good fun at Manchester's AO Arena
The show is perfect for Partridge fans old and new. There were bags of references to all his past shows which make him so well loved but enough originality to make this well worth watching.
Lyell Tweed, Manchester Evening News, 14th May 2022Videos
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11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 19, Episode 39BBC Sport presenter Holly Hamilton, football broadcaster Mina Rzouki, journalist John Cross and comedian Elis James join Colin Murray for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment.
8pm60 min
9:20pm55 min
Secrets & Scandals Of Steptoe & Son
Behind the scenes of the comedy, revealing a political intervention that may have landed Labour a general election majority by shifting a broadcast of an episode, and a Met Police vice squad operation actively targeting celebrities that led to the arrest of star Wilfred Brambell.