British Comedy Guide

BCG Daily Sunday 1st January 2023

News

Features

Press clippings

Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Alfie (Johnny Vegas), Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan). Credit: Sky

Romantic Getaway on Sky review

Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan can't hold up this clunky heist comedy.

Kate Rice, Evening Standard, 1st January 2023
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Alfie (Johnny Vegas), Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan). Credit: Sky

Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan interview

Katherine Ryan admits she 'ruined scenes' in new Romesh Ranganathan comedy series.

Nicky Morris, Hello Magazine, 1st January 2023
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan)

Romantic Getaway review

Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan make the perfect sitcom couple.

Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 1st January 2023
Peter Kay

How Peter Kay became a comedy giant

The most popular comedian in the country is also fiercely private. Tom Nicholson meets his colleagues and collaborators to dig into the man behind the microphone.

Tom Nicholson, i Newspaper, 1st January 2023
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan)

Katherine Ryan "hated" Romantic Getaway dramatic scenes

The comic revealed she put mint in her eyes for one teary scene.

David Craig, Radio Times, 1st January 2023
Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: tarot has revealed the Tories' future to me

At a time of unprecedented political turmoil in the UK, I have been asked to play Nostradamus...

Stewart Lee, The Observer, 1st January 2023
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan)

Romantic Getaway review

Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan are brilliant in IVF heist caper.

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 1st January 2023
Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey: 'When you lose people, you realise life's too short to avoid difficult conversations'

The comedian and Strictly winner opens up on making people laugh, the perils of social media and the impact of losing Sean Lock to cancer.

Ed Cumming, The Telegraph, 1st January 2023

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

Radio 4 3pm
60 min
Episodes. Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan)

Bedroom Farce

Episode 2

Trevor and Susannah continue to wreak havoc in three separate bedrooms over one night. Complications!

Radio 2 logo 7pm
60 min
Our Friend Victoria. Victoria Wood. Copyright: Phil McIntyre Entertainment

The Victoria Wood Songbook

There can't be many comedians for whom music was as important as it was for Victoria Wood. In this programme, Shobna Gulati (Anita in dinnerladies) celebrates some of these treasured songs.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 3, Episode 4 - Maisie Adam

The award-winning comedian, Maisie Adam worries about her relationship with the truth, as she tries to tell it to Stephen Mangan. She worries about psychopathic tendencies too.

Sky Comedy. Copyright: Sky 9pm
30 min
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Allison (Katherine Ryan), Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan)

Romantic Getaway

Episode 1

Allison and Deacon are desperate for a baby, but they've run out of money to fund any more IVF treatment. So they decide to 'borrow' the £50,000 they need from their rich boss Alfie, who they discover is illegally creaming off money from the company.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 9pm
60 min
Taskmaster. Image shows left to right: Alex Horne, Carol Vorderman. Credit: Avalon Television

Taskmaster

Taskmaster's New Year Treat 2023, New Year Special - That's A Swizz

The third New Year's Treat sees Amelia Dimoldenberg, Carol Vorderman, Greg James, Sir Mo Farah and Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka Self Esteem) trying to win Greg's golden eyebrows.

Sky Comedy. Copyright: Sky 9:30pm
30 min
Romantic Getaway. Image shows left to right: Deacon (Romesh Ranganathan), Allison (Katherine Ryan)

Romantic Getaway

Episode 2

Allison starts IVF and pressure mounts to turn the stolen bitcoin into usable money, so Deacon asks his creepy uncle to help launder it. Meanwhile, HMRC launches an investigation.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10pm
30 min
Mrs. Brown's Boys. Image shows left to right: Buster Brady (Danny O'Carroll), Dermot Brown (Paddy Houlihan)

Mrs. Brown's Boys

Christmas 2022, New Year Special - Mammy's Hair Loom

Buster and Dermot are convinced Cathy's boyfriend is a vampire and there's only one way to deal with vampires. Meanwhile, Agnes awaits the valuation of an 'antique' vase that's been in the family for generations.

Share this page