BCG Daily Thursday 18th May 2023

Lee Kyle will carry on camping to cut Edinburgh Festival costs

Accommodation shortages in Edinburgh push festival performers further out of the city, a comedian who has booked almost a month on a campsite has said.

Paul Sinha 'fighting as hard as ever' as he offers Parkinson's update

"When you start walking with a limp, you know that something's wrong and it was more of a sense of relief of, 'Now that I know what it is, I can sort of own it'," he said.

Brighton Fringe - interview - Liam Withnail (Work-In-Progress)

"My show is called Chronic Boom! As it's an hour of jokes about me learning I have a chronic illness."

The Story Collective invests in new label from Tom Davis, James De Frond

London-based global content studio The Story Collective (TSC) has invested in writer and director James De Frond and actor Tom Davis's new indie label, Mighty Pebble Pictures.

Duty Of Care, Brighton Fringe review

The rancid culture that gets exposed depressingly often in the Met and other police forces deserves every satirical kicking that it gets. However, Powercut Theatre's new show on the topic is a blunt cudgel, wielded inelegantly, which proves short on both wit and insight, though not on justifiable anger.

All the cross-references between Peep Show and Succession

In details spotted by the Podcast Secrets of the Pharaohs Twitter page, we take a look at the many crossovers between the two shows.

Reginald D. Hunter admits fears for future of comedy

The American comedian, 54, on why the world is running scared, his realisation that sunburn is a real thing and the reasons he prefers British policemen to those back home.

Tommy Cooper's niece was found dead after brutal stabbing

Tony King, 59, has pleaded guilty to her murder.

Andy Hamilton: Without comedy I would have ended up a sarcastic English teacher

"Part of me wonders, how unique can you be?"

Pregnant Scarlett Moffatt forced to quit CelebAbility

Pregnant Scarlett Moffatt has had to pull out of her long-running gig on ITV2's CelebAbility after falling sick while filming the latest series.

The Gogglebox legend, 32, was halfway through shooting the upcoming seventh series of the hit panel show when she was struck down by a bug that derailed production and forced her to step down.

Inside No. 9 fools viewers with bus replacement service

Creators and stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton played an inspired 'trick' on fans of their anthology series Inside No. 9 this week by creating an episode that didn't even 'exist' and broadcasting an alternative episode that nobody expected.

Bleak Expectations review

A greeably funny Dickensian spoof as cosy as a woollen teapot.

Why I abandonned writing a novel. Twice.

I started writing a novel in lockdown. Who didn't? I had some characters from a play I'd written. I had an exciting new story and situation. How hard can it be?

Bleak Expectations review

This parody doesn't know when to stop.

American network The CW picks up Everyone Else Burns

The CW has picked up Everyone Else Burns, Channel 4's apocalypse comedy about a religious sect starring Friday Night Dinner's Simon Bird.

Review: No Pay? No Way! at the Royal Exchange, Manchester

At times, Marieke Hardy's adaptation of Dario Fo's farce is like a game of sociopolitical bingo. It's all here: train strikes, price inflation, untrustworthy authority figures, and a catalogue of other maladies are wheeled through. Written only three years ago, its resonances remain scorchingly hot, the landscape unchanged.