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BCG Daily Wednesday 11th October 2023

FYI

Tim Key Shop

Tim Key publishes Chapters

Tim Key is publishing his third volume of poetry, Chapters, and has been reminiscing about his early days on the spoken word circuit before he began performing in comedy clubs.

Features

Colin Geddis Live

Colin Geddis / Leith Comedy Festival / Joe McTernan - Bobby Carroll's Comedy Diary

Bobby Carroll checked out some of the shows at Leith Comedy Festival, and checked out Colin Geddis at Monkey Barrel.

Still Game. Isa Drennan (Jane McCarry) Quiz

British Comedy Quiz #275

This time: Still Game, Baldy Man, My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Hattie Jacques, and more.

BCG Pro

A man thinking Pro

How to analyse your script

Here we look at the elements you need to consider when analysing a script you've written for a new project.

Press clippings

Stage Door

Interview: Cat Herding Soup Cans

We go behind the scenes of improv team Canny Funny...

Phoenix Remix, 11th October 2023
Southport Comedy Festival

The Halls Of Ridiculous win 2023 Southport New Comedian Of The Year title with superb improv show

The Halls Of Ridiculous Chris Lumb (BBC Three: Russell Howard's Good News) and Phil Allan-Smith (BBC One: This Is My House) took home the trophy, with a really unusual double act which left the audience roaring with laughter. Runner-up on the night was Sallyann Fellowes, from Egham in Surrey. A regular on the stand-up circuit she brought "an unpredictable, unique brand of comedy weirdness". Third was Dave Wilder. Based in Brighton, by day Dave is a best-selling, award-winning author.

Andrew Brown, Stand Up For Southport, 11th October 2023
Dara O Briain

Early footage of Dara O Briain emerges taking part in Human Centipede record attempt

Footage has emerged of Dara O Briain taking part in an attempt at a World Record on Roy Castle's Record Breakers show in 1991.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th October 2023
Viggo Venn

Viggo Venn: Clowning is lower status than stripping

The comedian on performing for the royals, attending the same clown school as Sacha Baron Cohen and why he's turned down other reality shows.

Etan Smallman, The Telegraph, 11th October 2023
Jordan Gray

Jordan Gray interview

"You just get good at stuff you like," Jordan Gray is talking about how she taught herself piano.

Stuart Rolt, BN1 Magazine, 11th October 2023
Bend It Like Beckham. Image shows from L to R: Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), Jules Paxton (Keira Knightley)

Bend It Like Beckham director finally teases sequel idea

"I'm starting to percolate an idea for a possible sequel of some kind."

James Hibbs, Radio Times, 11th October 2023
Kirkmoore. Image shows left to right: Jack (Christopher John Slater), Chloe (Francesca Mills), David (Keron Day)

Kirkmoore review

This sitcom about disabled young people at a residential college is spot on with its depiction of disabled dating and friendships. Unfortunately, it forgets one thing - making people laugh.

Lucy Webster, The Guardian, 11th October 2023
Ruby Clyde

Ruby Clyde: I was mistaken for a man and embraced my androgyny

My penchant for menswear had been treated as a mildly immoral habit when I was growing up. But one night all the shame melted away.

Ruby Clyde, The Guardian, 11th October 2023

Saltburn review

British fish-out-of-water drama Saltburn made for an overcooked start to this year's London Film Festival.

Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 11th October 2023

Videos

Ralph Jones Online

Rejected Bake Off contestants

1 mins, 59 secs

You only see the bakers that make it onto the show. Here are the weirdos who were rejected from The Great British Bake Off.

Podcasts

RHLSTP with Richard Herring. Image shows left to right: Richard Herring, Joe Lycett

RHLSTP with Richard Herring: RHLSTP 470 - Joe Lycett

61 minutes

#470 Right Little Puck. Richard has some more incredible Birmingham facts to share with his Brummie audience. His guest is RHLSTP super fan and mischievous imp, Joe Lycett. They reveal...

TV & radio

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 4, Episode 1 - '...monsters under the bed...'

In this new series, Daliso is in a more philosophical mood. We find him working through his thoughts, feelings, and opinions by sharing his stories with a live audience in his hometown of Manchester.

Sky Max. Copyright: Sky 9pm
45 min
Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows left to right: Daisy May Cooper, Phil Wang, Jordan Stephens, Greg Davies, Jamali Maddix, Ashnikko, Noel Fielding

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Series 31, Episode 8

Ashnikko, Jordan Stephens and Phil Wang join regulars Noel Fielding, Daisy May Cooper and Jamali Maddix for the pop culture panel show, hosted by Greg Davies.

U&Dave channel logo 10pm
60 min
Outsiders. Image shows left to right: Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty, Judi Love, Guz Khan, Laura Smyth, Chris McCausland, David Mitchell

Outsiders

Series 3, Episode 1

David Mitchell returns for a new third series of his UKTV Original outdoor survival challenge show. Joining him in the wild are Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty, Guz Khan, Judi Love, Chris McCausland and Laura Smyth.

BBC Three 10pm
30 min
BBC New Comedy Awards. Image shows left to right: Alex MacKeith, Susie McCabe, Lauren Steven, Richard Gadd, Dean T Beirne, Josh Pugh, Kyrah Gray, Larry Dean, Daniel Petrie

BBC New Comedy Awards

2023, Episode 2 - Leith

Larry Dean hosts the second heat, coming from the Leith Theatre.

Comedy Central 10pm
90 min
David Baddiel

David Baddiel: Too Much Information

Baddiel offers his thoughts on football and pornography during footage from his sell-out 1998 tour.

BBC Three 10:30pm
21 min
Kirkmoore. Image shows left to right: Jack (Christopher John Slater), Chloe (Francesca Mills), David (Keron Day)

Kirkmoore

Chloe, Jack and David are navigating life at Kirkmoore. Jack, girl-obsessed, is determined to get a reluctant David on a night out, while Chloe is anxious about her date.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Njambi McGrath. Credit: Steve Ullathorne

Njambi McGrath - Black Black

Episode 1 - First World Problems

Njambi details the arrival of the British colonisers and the immediate impact it had on her grandmother's generation. With some dark humour, she tells stories of the introduction of concentration camps and forced labour and compares them to the cruelty she faced herself as a child in boarding school, and the legacy of racism which has affected her closest relationships to this day.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions

The Skewer

Series 10, Episode 1

This week - Labour Possessed, Oh Mr Sunak, and The Lorax fails to save a tree.

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