BCG Daily Saturday 17th August 2024
Features
Fringe
Press clippings
Still Game stars team up for Jack and Victor comic book
Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, along with some other Craiglang favourites, will appear in cartoon form in He Who Hingeth Aboot Getteth Hee Haw.
Gabriel McKay, The Herald, 17th August 2024Reginald D. Hunter and the cowardice of the comedy class
The apparent antipathy towards the Jewish people on the comedy circuit is noticeably greater than that in, say, music or acting.
Julie Burchill, The Spectator, 17th August 2024
City map of Outlaws filming locations launched
A new city-wide map of filming locations from the TV series The Outlaws has been launched.
Bristol Film Office partnered with Visit Bristol and Bristol UNESCO City of Film to create The Outlaws in Bristol movie map.
BBC, 17th August 2024Connor Burns audience evacuated after fire - show rescheduled
A fire broke out yesterday night (Friday 16th August) in Just the Tonic's Nucleus building during comedian Connor Burns' sell-out show 1994.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th August 2024
Alex Horne looks back: "Both my careers - the Horne Section and Taskmaster - are an extension of playing with friends"
Alex Horne, Joe Auckland and Ben Reynolds on being best friends since childhood, their shared love of comedy, and spending their birthdays together.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 17th August 2024BBC pulls Miriam Margoyles Dickens comment from radio: "It should have been challenged at the time"
The actor made the remark during a live recording of Radio 4's Front Row.
Lydia Spencer-Elliott, The Independent, 17th August 2024Suchandrika Chakrabarti on why she decided to start her Edinburgh run today
Doing half the Fringe? It's the way forward.
Suchandrika Chakrabarti, Chortle, 17th August 2024
Sunlight review
Review of Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen's quirky road trip romcom at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 17th August 2024Timestalker is the most unique British movie of the year
The historical sci-fi rom-com - which held its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival - is another inventive and unique offering from Lowe, confirming her as one of the UK's most exciting filmmakers.
Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy, 17th August 2024TV & radio
10am30 min
You're Dead To Me
Series 9, Episode 7 - Alexis SoyerGreg Jenner is joined in the nineteenth century by Dr Annie Gray and comedian Ed Gamble to learn all about French celebrity chef Alexis Soyer.
11am30 min
My Mate's A Footballer
Series 3, Episode 2 - Your Questions AnsweredJoe Wilkinson asks the questions sent in by you, the listener, to his new footballing friend Patrick Bamford. If you've got something you'd like to ask, use #MMAF on social media.
9pm30 min
Piglets
Episode 5 - QuestioningJulie is closing in on the infiltrator and is frontrunner for Cunningham's job, but Melanie has a plan to discredit her - elsewhere, Leggo may have gone too far with Daz.
9:30pm30 min
Piglets
Episode 6 - Change Of HeartThe new Head of Training is set to be announced, Paul's life is about to get even more stressful, and Steph and Mike might be getting back together.
11pm30 min
Scott Agnew: Dead Man Talking
Episode 3 - Brought Back To Be MeScott Agnew ponders whether someone was in fact watching over him and tells the most unbelievable funeral story of all time.