BCG Daily Sunday 13th October 2024
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Features
Press clippings
Charlie Cooper: "We don't have much pride in being English"
The writer and star of This Country's new series explores the mysterious phenomena which inform a sense of Britishness.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 13th October 2024
Alison Steadman on the final Gavin & Stacey
The actor on her formative years in Liverpool, her relationship with Mike Leigh - and why she was born to play Pamela in the much-loved TV comedy.
Tim Adams, The Observer, 13th October 2024
Simon Bird: 'A travel ban was the best decision we ever made'
The actor on The Inbetweeners' £10-a-night hotel, travelling with fussy eater children and the California trip so disastrous he and his wife banned family holidays.
Claudia Rowan, The Sunday Times, 13th October 2024
The week in TV: Sweetpea; Alma's Not Normal
Dexter meets Villanelle in a murderous new comedy drama; and Sophie Willan's brilliant Bolton comedy goes deeper and darker.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 13th October 2024
David Mitchell: What went wrong with Starmer's Gray matter?
Appointing the person most associated with Partygate to a partisan Labour role seemed like a mistake from the start.
The Observer, 13th October 2024
Red Dwarf: Discovering the TV Series Volume 1 review
Salinksy's book is a very timely chance to relive the sci-fi sitcom that changed television comedy for good.
Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub, 13th October 2024
Christopher Hall: A Girl For All Seasons review
He took an equal mix of lighthearted and more serious topics and found humour in them all without getting too deep or political - which felt much needed in today's world.
Katie Anna McConnell, Curtain Call Reviews, 13th October 2024
Christopher MacArthur-Boyd: We can't let a**eholes own dark comedy
The phrase "if you don't laugh, you'll cry" has been used for as long as you can remember, but recently it has felt a bit too much like all cry and no laughing. Everything's more expensive, everything's slightly worse, the future is not bright - we are living in scary times. Cue Christopher Macarthur-Boyd.
Josh Carmichael, The Herald, 13th October 2024
Ella Purnell is terrific in Sweetpea the best new TV show streaming right now
I've only watched the first episode of this series so far, so I cannot speak to how it ends, but from just that episode I definitely recommend you check it out.
Erik Kain, Forbes, 13th October 2024Videos
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9:20pm30 min
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Series 7, Episode 4 - Barbel (River Trent, Nottinghamshire)Paul, Bob and terrier Ted travel to Nottingham to fish the mighty river Trent for Barbel. They stay in a memorable party house and invite a very special guest to join them.