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BCG Daily Sunday 19th June 2022

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PRU. Image shows from L to R: Belle (Pia Somersby), Halil (Jaye Ersavas), Sienna (Nkechi Simms), Jaeden (Michael Boahen)

Cast & crew of BBC Three's 'PRU' talk real life experiences, working with Tom Moutchi & more

BBC Three is currently airing one of their newest shows PRU. PRU - which stands for pupil referral unit - is a comedy series ab on a group of 15-year-olds struggling to navigate their way through adolescence in a school for excluded kids.

Ore Bolarin, GRM Daily, 19th June 2022
Kingdom. Peter Kingdom (Stephen Fry). Copyright: Sprout Pictures / Parallel Film & Television Productions

Stephen Fry to take on Sir David Attenborough as new ITV nature show host

The brain box will be exploring the world and all the wild and wonderful aspects of nature in a new six part ITV documentary series titled A Year On Planet Earth.

Seamus Duff, The Mirror, 19th June 2022
Chicken Shop Date. Amelia Dimoldenberg

Meet Amelia Dimoldenberg, Gen Z's favourite comedian

With her YouTube chat show Chicken Shop Date, the comedian is redefining what makes Gen Z laugh and everyone from Louis Theroux to Drake is lining up to appear alongside her. Pandora Sykes meets the comedy sensation.

Pandora Sykes, The Sunday Times, 19th June 2022
Avoidance. Image shows from L to R: Claire (Jessica Knappett), Jonathan (Romesh Ranganathan)

Romesh Ranganathan reveals another side to his comedy

Maths teacher turned comedian Romesh Ranganathan's quirky humour has propelled him to the top of the class. But, as he reveals here, life hasn't always been so easy.

Tim Lewis, The Observer, 19th June 2022
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. Image shows from L to R: Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack), Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson)

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande review

The endlessly versatile actor plays a reserved widow ​who ​hires a ​sex worker ​in this ​enjoyably subversive but not quite believable​ romp​.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 19th June 2022
James Acaster

The new comedy establishment?

I couldn't help noticing recently that a lot of comedians are intertwined. In a fiercely competitve business a lot of solo stand-ups seem to be forming temporary double acts for podcasts and programmes. And the same people keep cropping up, creating what you might want to call, if you were so inclined, the new Comedy Establishment.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th June 2022

TV & radio

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Josie Long

Josie Long: What Next?

Multi-award winning comedian Josie Long examines our new reality as we reset after a strange two years. Motherhood, climate, politics and optimism meet in a stand-up masterclass.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
60 min
The Outlaws. Image shows from L to R: Rani Rekowski (Rhianne Barreto), Christian (Gamba Cole)

The Outlaws

Series 2, Episode 3

The outlaws' illicit business begins to run like a well-oiled machine. An old dog struggles to learn new tricks, and a protest erupts at the community centre.

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