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BCG Daily Wednesday 23rd October 2024

News

We Might Regret This. Image shows left to right: Jo (Elena Saurel), Freya (Kyla Harris) TV

We Might Regret This to return for two more series

BBC comedy We Might Regret This has been renewed for two more six-part series.

Mark Steel Live

Mark Steel to discuss throat cancer battle in 2025 tour

Stand-up show Mark Steel: The Leopard In My House, which will tour between February and June 2025, will see the comedian discussing his battle with cancer.

Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2024. Harriet Dyer. Credit: Will Johnston Live

Harriet Dyer wins Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2024

Harriet Dyer has won the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award for 2024.

Features

The Two Ronnies. Image shows from L to R: Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker. Copyright: BBC Quiz

British Comedy Quiz #329

How well do you remember the characters in The Two Ronnies? To get full marks here, you'll also need to think about Dave Allen, The World's End, The Other 'Arf, and more.

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Miranda Pro

The three day rule

Sitcom scripts should take place over three days - max.

Press clippings

Paddington In Peru. Credit: STUDIOCANAL

The Home Office gave Paddington a passport for the new film, and it's more than the internet could bear

People had thoughts - including some that are NSFW.

Oonagh Keating, The Poke, 23rd October 2024
Mrs. Brown's Boys. Image shows from L to R: Buster Brady (Danny O'Carroll), Grandad Brown (Dermot O'Neill), Dino Doyle (Gary Hollywood), Rory Brown (Rory Cowan), Cathy Brown (Jennifer Gibney), Mark Brown (Pat Shields), Betty Brown (Amanda Woods), Winnie McGoogan (Eilish O'Carroll), Dermot Brown (Paddy Houlihan), Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll), Maria Nicholson / Brown (Fiona O'Carroll). Copyright: BBC / BocPix

Brendan O'Carroll mounts extraordinary defence of N-word jokes

MailOnline can reveal that in an interview just two weeks ago O'Carroll argued in defence of such controversial comedy and claimed it could work when used when he was in character as his alter-ego Agnes Brown.

Nick Pisa, Daily Mail, 23rd October 2024
Robin Morgan. Copyright: Matt Stronge

Robin Morgan Month - interview - Tour Life...

We go behind the scenes of what it is like to perform to audiences, how to prepare for tour, writing a show and much much more! Today we talk about Tour Life...

Holly, Phoenix Remix, 23rd October 2024
Ricky Gervais

The problem with Ricky Gervais isn't that he's not woke, it's that he's not funny

The Office star is back on tour with a new stand-up show, Mortality. Louis Chilton looks at the contradictions within Gervais's particular brand of shock comedy.

Louis Chilton, The Independent, 23rd October 2024
Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais: Mortality review - Roy 'Chubby' Brown with a philosophy degree?

The provocative comic begins a new tour at the York Barbican with jokes about Jimmy Savile, disabled children, sharia and Gandhi - it's mostly a very tepid hour.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23rd October 2024
The Cockfields. Simon (Joe Wilkinson)

Sean Lock Comedy Award 2024 review

It's an impossible task, of course, finding the next Sean Lock. But while he is inimitable, kudos to Channel 4 for keeping his spirit alive with their award highlighting comedians who strive to be off-the-wall but maintain a broad appeal.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd October 2024
The Office. David Brent (Ricky Gervais)

The Office gets a Mexican remake

The Office is getting a Mexican remake with Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios and Gary 'Gaz' Alazraki's Máquina Vega leading the charge.

Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 23rd October 2024
Armando Iannucci. Copyright: Linda Nylind

'The worse the world gets, the better for this play': Armando Iannucci on staging Dr Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick's pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called 'sick'. Iannucci explains why - in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk - this madcap story is as relevant as ever.

Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian, 23rd October 2024
Shannon Matthews: The Musical - The Movie

Warped Shannon Matthews musical branded 'sick and bang out of order'

Critics say a production based on the bizarre Shannon Matthews kidnapping case should never have been made as it turns the supposed disappearance of a child into a musical.

Kate Nelson, Daily Star, 23rd October 2024

Generation Z scribe tells how Covid coloured the comedy

Writer and director Ben Wheatley discusses soon-to-air Channel 4 zombie series.

Marian McHugh, Broadcast, 23rd October 2024

Videos

Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows left to right: Sophie Willan, Susan Wokoma, Greg Davies, Nelly Furtado, Ché Grant, Noel Fielding, Jamali Maddix TV

Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Sophie Willan can guess people's star signs?

52 secs

Sophie Willan shows off her (not so great) secret ability of being able to tell people's horoscopes.

Podcasts

RHLSTP with Richard Herring. Image shows left to right: Fred MacAulay, Richard Herring

RHLSTP with Richard Herring: RHLSTP 534 - Fred MacAulay

56 minutes

#534 Keenan Wayans - Richard is in Glasgow and by the time you hear this he should have an exciting announcement about a new acting role, as long as he...

TV & radio

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Trust. Copyright: BBC

Trust

Series 5, Episode 2 - The War Room

The Ofsted inspectors are in, and East Salford Academy Trust is putting its best face forward.

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC 4:35pm
11 min
Super Happy Magic Forest

Super Happy Magic Forest

Episode 13 - The Big Birch Bird

Much to Trevor's irritation, a rare phoenix woodpecker takes a liking to him - so he demands an immediate quest to return the bird to its real home.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Ivo Graham

Obsessions

Series 3, Episode 4 - Fatiha El-Ghorri & Paul Gorton

Ivo learns of Fatiha El-Ghorri's trainer obsession, and traitor Paul Gorton's gaming fixation. VOP Ailish Morrison also shares her twin loves - cheerleading and Lord of the Rings.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
60 min
Ludwig. Image shows left to right: Ms Freya Chordwell (Rose Ayling-Ellis), Mr Bishop (Sam Swainsbury)

Ludwig

Episode 5

John and the gang go back to school to investigate the suspicious death of a headmaster. Lucy sneaks off on a covert mission, and a shocking revelation leaves John reeling.

Sky Max. Copyright: Sky 9pm
60 min
Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows left to right: Sophie Willan, Susan Wokoma, Greg Davies, Nelly Furtado, Ché Grant, Noel Fielding, Jamali Maddix

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Series 32, Episode 2

Susan Wokoma, AJ Tracey and Nelly Furtado join host Greg Davies and regulars Noel Fielding and Jamali Maddix, with guest team captain Sophie Willan.

BBC Three 10pm
30 min
BBC New Comedy Awards. Image shows left to right: Babatunde Aléshé, Ciaran Franco, Marty Gleeson, Mark Moloney, Vittorio Angelone, Adam Perrott, Bert Broadbent, Roya Eslami, Serena Terry

BBC New Comedy Awards

2024, Episode 4 - Northern Irish Heat: Belfast

Serena Terry hosts the Northern Irish heat from the MAC in Belfast where comics Ciaran Franco, Adam Perrott, Marty Gleeson, Bert Broadbent and Mark Moloney perform a stand-up set in front of judges Vittorio Angelone, Roya Eslami and Babatunde Aleshe.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions

The Skewer

Series 12, Episode 7

This week - Hamas and the Argonauts, 'Puff Daddy The Magic Dragon', and As You Wish, Wesley Streeting.

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