BCG Daily Thursday 8th September 2022

Doc Martin review

A heart-warming return to UK's most notorious disease hotspot.

Doc Martin, ITV, review

Martin Clunes administers a much-needed dose of comfort.

See How They Run review

This likable whodunnit comedy sees Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan on the trail of high-camp crime in the original production of The Mousetrap.

Russell Howard and his mum: 'She has a shrine to me. It's creepy'

The comedian and his mother Ninette on family catchprases, heated loos and milking Japanese cows.

Doc Martin review

We'll miss this curmudgeonly hero.

See How They Run review

Playful Agatha Christie romp is as sweet and light as a fondant fancy.

See How They Run review

It works better as a weird relationship movie than a murder-mystery but See How They Run is the whodunnit as hoot, with lots of laughs, oodles of style and played with verve by a quality cast. It also reconfirms Saoirse Ronan as a comedy god.

See How They Run review

A delightfully absurd Mousetrap send-up that has its cheese and eats it.

Charlie Cooper on reuniting This Country duo for whodunnit See How They Run

Charlie Cooper talks to RadioTimes.com about working with director Tom George on the new comedy-mystery.

TV review: Stuck, BBC Two

Stuck is hardly the first comedy to deal with a mid-life crisis, but even after a few minutes you sense that this is going to be different.

The Importance of Being Earnest tour - first look photos

Take a first look at the brand-new production of The Importance Of Being Earnest, directed by Denzel Westley-Sanderson.

The new production of Oscar Wilde's farcical comedy, co-produced by English Touring Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Rose Theatre, has just opened in previews in Leeds before heading to Cambridge, Ipswich, Newcastle, Liverpool and Kingston.

TV preview: Stewart Lee, Tornado, BBC Two

I expect it will have changed a bit since I first saw it way back in 2019 when he had a pop at Phoebe Waller-Bridge among others.

Full cast announced for The Upstart Crow

The Upstart Crow returns to London's West End later this month for a strictly limited 10-week season at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

See How They Run review

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan sniff out a killer in this consistently entertaining star-studded whodunnit.

See How They Run review

Perhaps the movie will not be remembered as a masterpiece, but it's fun, quirky, full of style and aesthetically charming.

Ticket details for BBC New Comedy Award 2022

Heats take place in Deptford, Exeter, Derry/Londonderry, Middlesbrough and Coventry, with the final in Cardiff.

Stewart Lee calls Ricky Gervais' comedy drama work "abysmal"

"I think The Office is brilliant. I think Ricky's comedy drama work is of diminishing returns to the point where it's now abysmal."

Stuck review

Maybe it's a throwback to the domestic imprisonment of the past couple of years, but the stagnation of long-term relationships seems to be a growing trend in TV.

Stuck review

Dylan Moran's 10-minute sitcom is vapidly inoffensive.

It's a drag: How sacralisation ruins low culture

I've seen a hell of a lot of drag in my time. The life of a homosexual man in modern Western countries has many enviable advantages over those lived by the brethren of previous ages, but I'm not entirely sure this is one of them. Now drag is everywhere. It has become mainstream, to be enjoyed by everybody, not only mums and dads but, increasingly, all the family. You lucky people.