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BCG Daily Thursday 4th January 2024

News

Mr Bean. Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions TV

Mr Bean animated series to return for Series 4

The animated Mr Bean format is to return for a fourth series in 2025. Series 4 will comprise of 52 episodes.

FYI

The Stand Up Sketch Show. Sharon Wanjohi TV

Stand Up Sketch Show Series 6

It's been confirmed that The Stand Up Sketch Show will return to ITV2 in 2024 for a sixth series.

BCG Pro

Not Going Out. Lee (Lee Mack) Pro

A quick one

We discuss the relationship between brevity and levity.

Press clippings

Olga Koch

Olga Koch to perform in India

Olga Koch brings her hit one-woman stand-up comedy show Prawn Cocktail to Mumbai and Bengaluru, for the first time.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th January 2024
Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan). Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner, Amazon Studios

TikTok users say wealthy people taking part in Saltburn TikTok trend 'miss point' of film

Social media users have remarked that the people creating the video [showing off their big houses] may have "missed the point" of Saltburn, which is to satirise the absurdity of the lives of the upper classes.

Ellie Muir, The Independent, 4th January 2024
Episodes. Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan)

Stephen Mangan joins Classic FM

Actor, comedian and presenter Stephen Mangan joins Classic FM as the new host of Sunday afternoons, sharing his passion for classical music in a new programme launching this Sunday, 7 January at 4pm.

Classic FM, 4th January 2024
Ash Atalla

Streamers are coming back to comedy, says Ash Atalla

Roughcut chief believes appetite for comedy is returning as 'world is a darker place'.

Heather Fallon, Broadcast, 4th January 2024
On The Buses. Stan Butler (Reg Varney). Copyright: London Weekend Television

Superfan of 70s sitcom On The Buses, 26, assembles biggest collection of memorabilia

George Darlow never tires of episodes of the ITV series and three spin-off films.

David Wilkes, Daily Mail, 4th January 2024

Videos

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