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BCG Daily Tuesday 9th January 2024

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Paddy McGuinness TV

Paddy McGuinness pilots Paddy mockumentary for the BBC

Paddy McGuinness is piloting a mockumentary for the BBC about his life and divorce with the team behind Meet The Richardsons, co-starring stand-up Josh Pugh.

Marjolein Robertson. Credit: Trudy Stade Live

Marjolein Robertson announces her UK debut tour

Marjolein Robertson is to tour her award-nominated Edinburgh Fringe show, Marj.

The Cleaner. Paul 'Wicky' Wickstead (Greg Davies) TV

Greg Davies' The Cleaner returning to BBC One for a third series

Greg Davies' crime scene comedy The Cleaner is returning to BBC One for a third series, with filming taking place later this year.

Features

Michael McIntyre's Big Show. Michael McIntyre TV

Michael McIntyre interview

As his Big Show returns for a seventh series, Michael McIntyre reflects on how the combination of "heart and hilarity" is what makes his show special. He also reveals some of the stunts they have planned for this next set of episodes.

Connor Burns. Credit: Melody Joy Live

Random 8: Connor Burns

A rising star of 2024, Connor Burns recalls a Capaldi encounter and PlayStation/paste disaster.

BCG Pro

Episodes. Image shows from L to R: Matt LeBlanc (Matt LeBlanc), Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan), Beverly Lincoln (Tamsin Greig) Pro

Giving notes

Receiving notes is one thing, but how do you give notes?

Press clippings

Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan). Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner, Amazon Studios

Saltburn review

The most controversial film of the past year is a succession of outlandish provocations that refuses to say anything.

Maren Thom and Alex Dale, Spiked, 9th January 2024
Birds Of A Feather. Image shows from L to R: Sharon Theodopolopodous (Pauline Quirke), Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph), Tracey Stubbs (Linda Robson). Copyright: Alomo Productions / Retort

TV trigger warnings are out of control

The warnings on what we now call 'content' (i.e. what we used to know as films and TV shows) are getting ever more ludicrous. Almost everything made before 2000 now carries a cigarette packet-style exhortation or exculpation about race, sex and offensive attitudes.

Gareth Roberts, The Spectator, 9th January 2024
Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan). Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner, Amazon Studios

Class war on the dancefloor: how rich gen Zers started a Saltburn craze that is beyond satire

The film's final scene, in which Barry Keoghan's Oliver dances naked to Murder on the Dancefloor, has spawned a whole new way to show off daddy's country pile.

The Guardian, 9th January 2024
Poor Things. Image shows left to right: Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), Bella Baxter (Emma Stone). Credit: Searchlight

Poor Things' Victorian-style fashion shows a beautiful side to the Frankenstein tale

While we've come to associate the visuals of Frankenstein with ugliness, when it comes to costumes in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things - a quasi-Frankenstein tale based on the '90s novel of the same name - they are anything but horrid. The technicolor 19th-century fashion featured throughout the film - out now - paints a much brighter picture than what you imagine from a story that begins with a woman undergoing a brain transplant experiment following her attempt to take her own life.

Frances Solá-Santiago, Refinery 29, 9th January 2024
Edinburgh Fringe 2021

Show registration for Edinburgh Fringe 2024 now open

If you're thinking of bringing a show to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, good news - show registration is now open!

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th January 2024
Ross Noble

Ross Noble: I'm a runner

The surrealist comedian, 47, on switching motorbikes for marathons and being heckled on the run.

David Smyth, Runner's World, 9th January 2024
The Thick Of It. Image shows from L to R: Oliver Reeder (Chris Addison), Terri Coverley (Joanna Scanlan), Nicola Murray (Rebecca Front), Glenn Cullen (James Smith), Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). Copyright: BBC

Peter Capaldi says The Thick Of It could not be remade because politics now is 'beyond a joke'

Peter Capaldi has said that a reboot of the dark political comedy The Thick Of It would be too pertinent given the current climate of contemporary British politics.

Ellie Muir, The Independent, 9th January 2024
Poor Things. Image shows left to right: Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), Bella Baxter (Emma Stone). Credit: Searchlight

Poor Things review

Alasdair Gray adaptation is wildly wonderful.

The Herald, 9th January 2024
Poor Things. Image shows left to right: Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), Bella Baxter (Emma Stone). Credit: Searchlight

Poor Things review

A stunning steampunk fairy tale with a deeply uncomfortable edge.

Kevin Ibbotson-Wight, The Wee Review, 9th January 2024

TV & radio

Radio 4 4pm
30 min
Isy Suttie

Word Of Mouth: Writing Comedy With Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie talks to Michael Rosen about comedy writing.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The Ultimate Choice. Steph McGovern

The Ultimate Choice

Series 2, Episode 2 - Kim Kardashian v E.T.

Steph McGovern asks some seriously funny minds to offer definitive answers to the great questions of our age. Or not. With guests Amy Gledhill and Ian Smith.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn. Image shows from L to R: Tara Flynn, Marian Keyes

Now You're Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn

Series 3, Episode 9 - The Middle Fingers Problem

What do you do when you're bisexual and rejected by your family, a parent worried about your son sucking his fingers, and someone whose friend brings you nothing but problems?

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