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BCG Daily Wednesday 8th January 2025

News

The Dry. Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher). Credit: ITV TV

The Dry to return to ITVX for Series 3

Comedy drama The Dry is due to return to ITVX in 2026 for a third series.

Rob Beckett's Undeniable. Rob Beckett. Copyright: Monkey Kingdom TV

Rob Beckett pilots Am I The A**hole? for Comedy Central

Rob Beckett is piloting a panel show for Comedy Central based on comedians judging people's disputes, titled Am I The A**hole?.

BBC Comedy Collective Pro

BBC Comedy Collective opens for applications for a third year

Applications open on Monday 13th January 2025 to join the third cohort of the BBC Comedy Collective, the "supercharged bursary scheme" that supports 10 mid-level comedy creatives.

FYI

Russell Howard: Lubricant. Russell Howard TV

Russell Howard quits TV

Russell Howard has confirmed that he's quit television, saying that he prefers to focus on live stand-up and podcasting instead.

Boarders TV

Boarders Series 2 guest stars

The second series of TV comedy drama Boarders, coming to BBC Three in February, will feature guest appearances from Alan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy.

Features

Ania Magliano Live

Ania Magliano Q&A: Contraceptive coils, celebrity breakups and teeth

Ania Magliano talks about the inspiration for the content of her new tour show, what her creative process is like, and more.

The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin Quiz

British Comedy Quiz #339

Wild animals crop up regularly in British comedy. Here is a quiz themed around them.

BCG Pro

Breaking The News, DMs Are Open, Noising Up, The Skewer Pro

Your comedy career

Writer and Pro member Dan Sweryt offers some useful advice on building and maintaining your comedy career.

Press clippings

Gavin & Stacey script signed by stars up for grabs

Imagine getting your hands on a Gavin & Stacey script, signed by the cast and the director. One lucky raffle winner will do just that after Robert Wilfort, who plays Jason in the show, donated his script to a theatre company in Chesham and Amersham, in Buckinghamshire.

Rowenna Hoskin, BBC, 8th January 2025
Kai Humphries

Interview: Kai Humphries

Cameron Wright talks to the Blyth comedian about how the sometimes surreal experience of travelling informed his latest show, Gallivanting.

Cameron Wright, Narc Magazine, 8th January 2025
Get Away. Image shows left to right: Susan (Aisling Bea), Richard (Nick Frost)

Get Away review

The film perhaps isn't as funny or as scary as it could have been, and it might not hold up too well on repeat viewings, but there's a lot of fun to be had with Get Away, and it's easy to see the film becoming a bit of a cult hit in years to come.

Pete Messum, Critical Popcorn, 8th January 2025
Al Murray. Copyright: Avalon Television

Transworld acquires story of six surrenders that ended Second World War by James Holland and Al Murray

Comic Murray, who presents the WWII podcast We Have Ways Of Making You Talk with Holland, are to write Victory '45: The End of the War in Six Surrenders.

Maia Snow, The Bookseller, 8th January 2025
Susie McCabe. Copyright: Off The Kerb

Susie McCabe on how heart attack inspired new comedy show

Susie McCabe remembers being in the ambulance when she had the idea for her next comedy show.

Adam Robertson, The National (Scotland), 8th January 2025
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - read the script

This screenplay was written by Nick Park and Mark Burton.

Robert Lang, Deadline, 8th January 2025
Brassic

Michelle Keegan wraps up warm on set

Michelle Keegan bumps at the chance to return to work after revealing her pregnancy last month.

The actress, 37, sported bouncy curls and wrapped up in a green coat on set - for the filming of Sky comedy Brassic's seventh series in Manchester.

Howell Davies, The Sun, 8th January 2025
Video Nasty. Image shows left to right: Con (Cal O'Driscoll), Billy (Justin Daniels Anene), Zoe (Leia Murphy)

Video Nasty review

A bumpily chaotic but endearing joyride that will feel like a period drama for anyone under 40.

Keith Watson, The Telegraph, 8th January 2025

Videos

Peter Boodish. Peter Boodish (Scott Pearsall) Online

Peter Boodish - I Survived the Apocalypse with British Food

8 mins, 29 secs

Peter extols the virtues of prepping for the apocalypse with British groceries, when he is forced to survive an end-times event using those very food products.

QI. Image shows left to right: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig TV

QI - Series V behind-the-scenes banter

5 mins, 12 secs

The QI producers say: "We've told the panellists not to be funny before the main show but they just won't listen!"

Podcasts

Me1 versus Me2 Snooker with Richard Herring

Me1 vs Me2 Snooker with Richard Herring: Frame 183

29 minutes

Frame 183 - Afternoon Delight. Self-playing snooker moves into the prime time just after 5pm on a Tuesday slot, where the football scores are crazy and Rich only has 25...

RHLSTP with Richard Herring. Richard Herring

RHLSTP with Richard Herring: RHLSTP 543 - Count Binface

54 minutes

#543 House of Losers - Richard has had a worrying dream, but what can it all mean? His guest is an alien from outer space and not a man in...

TV & radio

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Ahir Shah

Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders Of The World

Episode 2

Inspired by an email from his 74-year-old father, comedian Ahir Shah introduces us to the The Seven Blunders of the World.

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