British Comedy Guide
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BCG Daily Tuesday 7th November 2023

News

Sex Education. Aimee Gibbs (Aimee Lou Wood). Credit: Eleven Film TV

Aimee Lou Wood stars in BBC comedy Daddy Issues from Danielle Ward

Aimee Lou Wood and Susan Lynch are reuniting for Daddy Issues, a BBC comedy drama written by Danielle Ward and directed by The Inbetweeners' Damon Beesley.

Sikisa Live

Sikisa to tour Hear Me Out stand-up show

Sikisa: Hear Me Out will tour the UK between February and May 2024.

The Change. Linda (Bridget Christie) TV

Bridget Christie writing a second series of The Change for Channel 4

Bridget Christie has begun writing a second series of her acclaimed Channel 4 comedy drama The Change, though she says the broadcaster has only commissioned scripts for three more episodes and has yet to confirm a full recommission.

Peter Jones Live

Peter Jones wins Beat The Frog World Series 2023 competition

Australian comedian Peter Jones has won the Beat The Frog World Series 2023 new act competition. The runner-up was Daniel McCreanor, with Qasim Akhtar taking the panel prize.

FYI

Rosie Jones Live

Rosie Jones tour extension

A major extension has been announced for Rosie Jones's first nation-wide tour, Triple Threat. The show will also be recorded for later release.

G'wed. Reece (Dylan Thomas Smith). Credit: Golden Path Productions TV

G'wed cast announced

Upcoming ITVX comedy G'wed, focusing on a diverse group of young people in Liverpool, has revealed its full cast ahead of its debut early next year.

Live At The Apollo TV

Live At The Apollo re-ordered

BBC Two has ordered Series 19 and Series 20 of Live At The Apollo, to be broadcast in 2024 and 2025.

Dodger. Image shows left to right: Royston, Chief of the Yeoman Guard (Paul Whitehouse), The Archbishop of Canterbury (Simon Callow), John Bridge, The Crown Jeweller (Alex Macqueen), Queen Victoria (Nicola Coughlan), US President Martin Van Buren (Toby Stephens) TV

Dodger BBC Christmas special

Dodger is returning for its second Christmas special on BBC One, with a nod to King Charles' coronation and a guest cast including Paul Whitehouse, Simon Callow and Nicola Coughlan as Queen Victoria.

Features

Dad's Army: A Stripe For Frazer. Copyright: BBC TV

Interview with Dad's Army: The Animations director Charles Norton

Charles Norton, director of Dad's Army: The Animations, talks us through the process of bringing the series to life.

Lady Clementine. Rosalie Minnitt. Credit: Ben Meadows Live

Random 8: Lady Clementine

Deigning to grace Soho with her presence, Lady Clementine recalls a ghastly hat and a ghostly sewer.

BCG Pro

The Secret Reviewer Pro

The Secret Reviewer #56: The Free Stuff Freeway

Every month our clandestine critic reveals the murky truths behind that infamous trade, and live comedy generally. This month: Should you give random writers free tickets?

Press clippings

R.I.P - Rest In Peace

Comedy actor Howard Coggins dies at 52

Known for his legendary National Lottery adverts, Howard Coggins was also the co-founder of theatre company Living Spit and played a host of comedy characters.

Harry Rutter, The Mirror, 7th November 2023
Ahir Shah. Copyright: Avalon Television

Ahir Shah: Ends review

The show packs so much in: politics, class, race, grief, colonialism, marriage and the ubiquity of Ottolenghi cookbooks.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 7th November 2023
BBC New Comedy Award. Copyright: BBC

BBC New Comedy Award 2023 final review

Who the judges crowned winner, you'll just have to wait until next week's broadcast of the contest to find out.

Jay Richardson, Chortle, 7th November 2023
Peter Jones

Beat The Frog World Series Final 2023 review

Often new act competitions have a clear winner - a stand-out star-in-the-making, clearly head-and-shoulders above their contemporaries, however talented. Last night's Beat The Frog World Series final, however, was much closer to call. Any number of the acts could have taken the title without controversy, having bought various talents to the stage.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th November 2023
Alexander Bennett

Alexander Bennett interview

"I find comedy to be tremendous catharsis, and sometimes catharsis is as valuable as therapy to me."

Little Lark of London, 7th November 2023
Captain Mainwaring. Credit: BBC Studios

Dad's Army: The Animations review

Don't panic! There are moments of bliss in these Dad's Army cartoons.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 7th November 2023
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop. Alfie Moore. Copyright: BBC

Alfie Moore: How Radio 4 comic went from Sheffield steelworker to police officer to stand-up

Alfie Moore grew up in Sheffield and comes from a long line of steelworkers sharing his name.

Robert Cumber, The Sheffield Star, 7th November 2023
Joe Lycett

Joe Lycett thanks 'callous and cruel' Suella Braverman for helping him raise money for homeless charity

Joe Lycett has raised more than £50,000 for homelessness charity Crisis, after he ripped into Suella Braverman for calling rough sleeping a "lifestyle choice".

Sophie Perry, Pink News, 7th November 2023

Podcasts

Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown

Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown: Series 13 - Register to Vote

89 minutes

Isy Suttie and Yuriko Kotani join this episode recorded live at The Phoenix in Cavendish Square.

TV & radio

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Best Medicine. Image shows left to right: Nabil Abdulrashid, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly, Adam Kampff, Massimo Caputo

Best Medicine

Series 1, Episode 5 - Laughter, Other People, Inclusion, Tissue Engineering

Drumming rats, life-saving laughter, disability in Henry VIII's court and a revolutionary heart operation using placenta cells compete for the title of tge best medicine.

BBC Two 9:45pm
45 min
Live At The Apollo. Nabil Abdulrashid. Credit: Open Mike Productions

Live At The Apollo

Series 18, Episode 1 - Nabil Abdulrashid, Jake Lambert, Rachel Fairburn

Nabil Abdulrashid hosts the return of the comedy show filmed at London's Hammersmith Apollo, warming up the audience before introducing stand-up routines by fellow comedians Jake Lambert and Rachel Fairburn.

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