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BCG Daily Sunday 20th November 2022

Features

It's A Square World. Michael Bentine. Copyright: BBC Features

Comedy Chronicles: Michael Bentine - A Goon who should not be forgotten

In his centenary year, Comedy Chronicles addresses the remarkable and often-overlooked legacy and career of the multi-talented, fascinating Michael Bentine, co-creator of The Goon Show.

Here's A Funny Thing. Max Miller (John Bardon) TV

Here's A Funny Thing: Channel 4

Forty years since it was broadcast - during Channel 4's first month on air - we look at its production of Here's A Funny Thing, a hit one-man stage play about legendary music hall comic Max Miller.

Press clippings

Armando Iannucci. Copyright: Linda Nylind

Armando Iannucci: I have ADHD

The satirist on who makes him laugh, Tory attacks on the BBC, and the physics behind his sci-fi sitcom.

Michael Hogan, The Observer, 20th November 2022
The Jonathan Ross Show. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: Hot Sauce / ITV Studios

Jonathan Ross bans Matt Hancock from his chat show

I'm A Celeb's Matt Hancock has been banned from Jonathan Ross' talk show after the ITV star branded him 'horrible'.

Lucy Murgatroyd, The Sun, 20th November 2022
Ghosts. Image shows from L to R: Robin (Laurence Rickard), Humphrey (Laurence Rickard), Mary (Katy Wix), Thomas (Mathew Baynton), Alison (Charlotte Ritchie), Kitty (Lolly Adefope), Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), Captain (Ben Willbond), Pat (Jim Howick), Lady Button (Martha Howe-Douglas), Julian (Simon Farnaby). Copyright: Monumental Pictures

BBC releases entire first series of American version of Ghosts

The BBC has released all 18 episodes of the first series of the American version of Ghosts including the pilot.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th November 2022
The Last Leg. Image shows from L to R: Josh Widdicombe, Adam Hills, Alex Brooker

Adam Hills holds fake constituency surgery in Mildenhall while Matt Hancock is in jungle

Adam Hills joked he would "eat kangaroo's penis for free" as he vowed to look after Matt Hancock's constituency while the former Health Secretary is away in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.

ITV, 20th November 2022
Benidorm. Image shows from L to R: Joyce Temple Savage (Sherrie Hewson), Les / Lesley (Tim Healy). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Benidorm superfans travel from America to meet ITV cast at first-ever convention

An eight-year-old girl who'd rather go to Benidorm than Disneyland and a fan from Ohio descended on the holiday resort for the TV show's first ever convention.

Lydia Veljanovski, The Mirror, 20th November 2022
Billy Connolly Does.... Billy Connolly

From the shipyard to the Sarry Heid - Billy Connolly's Glasgow

Billy Connolly and the city where he was born and raised have been tightly interwoven throughout his eight decades.

Gregor Kyle, The Herald, 20th November 2022

Videos

Oli Frost Online

The Vampire Conspiracy

1 mins, 3 secs

The truth is out! Climate change is a conspiracy made up by socialist vampires in order to push social policies. The Vampire Conspiracy is the latest in Oli Frost's series of novelty songs about the climate crisis.

TV & radio

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30am
30 min
Monty Python's Flying Circus. John Cleese. Credit: BBC, Python (Monty) Pictures Ltd

Two Lumps Of Cleese

Two recovered moments lost from the BBC archive. Starring John Cleese from Radio 1 in 1970 and Radio 4 in 1975. With James Peak.

Radio 4 3pm
60 min
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

Episode 2 - The Rise

Reggie hits rock bottom with a drunken speech at the fruit growers association conference, so resolves to turn his back on the rat race by faking his own death and becoming a new man. However, he finds he cannot stop thinking about home.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn. Image shows from L to R: Tara Flynn, Marian Keyes

Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn

Series 2, Episode 8 - The Ugly Present Problem

What on earth can I do with this hideous present? Is my sister subject to controlling behaviour? Should this 46-year-old man get botox? Marian and Tara have views.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8pm
60 min
The Larkins. Image shows left to right: Reverend Ian Candy (Maxim Ays), Primrose Larkin (Lydia Page)

The Larkins

Series 2, Episode 5 - Pop In Prison

The Larkins do all they can to get Pop out of prison. To keep Pop's spirits up, Mariette tells him he is going to be grandfather, but swears him to secrecy. Ma is surprised by an about-turn from a conflicted Norma Norman.

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