BCG Daily Sunday 16th February 2025
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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review
Our hapless heroine is sharper, wiser and funnier.
Wendy Ide, The Guardian, 16th February 2025
Why middle-aged men can't get over Nathan Barley
Twenty years since Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's cult series first aired, fans are still obsessed with the ultimate Shoreditch muppet.
Kyle MacNeill, i Newspaper, 16th February 2025
Mark Steel on the ups and downs of surviving cancer
The comedian talks about politics, podcasts, family life's ups and downs and surviving throat cancer. Plus, a remarkable extract from his new memoir.
Tim Jonze, The Observer, 16th February 2025
The star of Amandaland is needy, arrogant, self-centred and shallow - and I love her
As portrayed by Lucy Punch, Amanda is one of TV's most unlikeable characters, devoid of humility in reduced circumstances yet determined not to go down with a fight.
Terri White, The Sunday Times, 16th February 2025
Mad About The Boy: meet my teacher who inspired Bridget Jones's crush
The diarist's latest flirtation, Mr Wallaker, is not just any fictional character - he was based on a Sunday Times writer's former history master.
Josh Glancy, The Times, 16th February 2025
How I made Father Ted: 'We had to edit the laughs down'
Putting the sitcom together was like a military operation, says its producer Lissa Evans. She reveals the secret of its success and recalls the shocking death at 45 of its star Dermot Morgan.
Lissa Evans, The Times, 16th February 2025
'Why Am I So Single?' was a triumph for queer representation
Toby Marlow has described Why Am I So Single? as a triumph of queer representation in the West End, despite premature closure.
The Stage, 16th February 2025
Stewart Lee: A tale of two suckers - Donald Trump's plastic straws and Keir Starmer
The US president has scrapped paper straws because they allegedly 'explode' - a bit like the PM's reputation if he keeps refusing to confront him on the big issues.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 16th February 2025
Josh Berry: Best Man review
Grasping the opportunity to say with depth and sincerity what I think about another man, let me say that Josh Berry's show is, well, kinda OK.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th February 2025
Big Boys creator Jack Rooke on saying goodbye to his comedy hit
As the semi-autobiographical show reaches its third and final series, its award-winning creator opens up about the people who inspired him - and his unlikely celebrity crush.
Michael Cragg, The Observer, 16th February 2025
In conversation with Anna Morris
We sat down with playwright, comedian and actor Anna Morris ahead of Fringe First winning show in 2024, Son Of A Bitch coming to Southwark Playhouse
A Young(ish) Perspective, 16th February 2025
Rhona Cameron on revisiting the traumas of her life in new book - and looking to the future
"I decided I wanted to write a book about the whole journey, from 1965 to now - all the traumas - and that I wouldn't leave here until I finished. It will be really terrifying for me to let go, but I have to do it this year."
Murray Scougall, The Sunday Post, 16th February 2025
Bridget Jones 4 records highest-ever opening for a romcom in the UK
The fourth instalment in the adventures of Helen Fielding's bumbling diarist, Mad About The Boy, made $14.9m (£11.8m) over its four-day opening weekend, beating all three previous instalments, the second of which, Edge Of Reason, was the previous record-holder with $8.1m.
Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 16th February 2025
Warwick Davis, Ricky Gervais and the big fight over Life's Too Short
The hilarious sitcom starred the 2025 BAFTA Fellow as 'the Martin Luther King of little people'. But not everyone saw the funny side.
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 16th February 2025
BBC celebrates BAFTA Film Award winners Wallace & Gromit
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl won in two categories at the BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - for Animated Film, and Children's and Family Film.
BBC, 16th February 2025
Paddington In Peru 4K UHD review
It doesn't quite have the humour spark of the previous but his warmth roars with hope for the story of inclusion and acceptance, wherever you're from...
Dan Bullock, Critical Popcorn, 16th February 2025Summer hotel prices in Edinburgh are the highest in the world
The cost of staying in the capital has soared during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, reflected in the US State Department's latest accommodation rates for travelling diplomats.
Mark McLaughlin, The Times, 16th February 2025Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy movie review
Laced with enough bittersweet loss, and surprising emotional heft beneath its frivolity, the latest and likely final Bridget Jones entry offers up a fitting swan song.
Casimir Harlow, AV Forums, 16th February 2025TV & radio
10:15am10 min
Nikhil & Jay
Episode 23 - Nikhil And Jay And The Telephone BirdJay thinks they have discovered a new bird - the telephone bird! Nikhil wants to feed his brother's imagination and make it real for him as he helps Jay search for it.
10pm30 min
Big Boys
Series 3, Episode 3 - Thin Lips, Fat Lines & A Poem On Princess DiJack's newfound spoken-word habit starts to wind everyone up as Peggy, Corinne and Yemi take their future into their own hands, whilst Danny freaks out about his.
