BCG Daily Sunday 24th May 2015

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Ruby Wax: Comedy a little painful when it isn't so hot

Ella Walker navigates a prickly conversation with the stand-up as she prepares to help the people of Cambridge "tame their minds."

Ella Walker, Cambridge News, 24th May 2015

Radio Times review

If variety should offer sights you never thought you'd see, this episode is a triumph. Among the entertainments is Jason Manford tap-dancing, a troupe of performing budgerigars and a Chinese group doing a "dance of a thousand hands" that would mesmerise Busby Berkeley himself.

Unlike the rest of the week on ITV, nobody here is buzzered off or pleading for the public to vote for them. They're just good. On the downside, pianist Lang Lang hooks up with Croatian duo 2Cellos for a clattering, bull-in-a-china-shop cover of Live and Let Die. Paul McCartney should sue.

David Butcher, Radio Times, 24th May 2015

Helen Lederer: where are TV's funny women?

Comedian Helen Lederer says there should be a wider range of comedy on television.

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 24th May 2015

Who is causing Edinburgh's free gig chaos?

Whoever is to blame this is all a great shame.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th May 2015

Older women coming out as lesbians thanks to BBC

Older women have been coming out as lesbians after being inspired by Last Tango In Halifax, its star Sarah Lancashire says.

Hannah Furness, The Telegraph, 24th May 2015

ITV give Frank Lampard little to laugh about

Management might look more attractive to ex-pros if appearing on panel shows is the alternative, writes Alan Tyers.

Alan Tyers, The Telegraph, 24th May 2015

Newcastle-filmed Undercover to premiere in June

North East producer and co-writer are part of creative team behind series, starring Bafta-winning Daniel Rigby, which is about to air on Dave channel.

Barbara Hodgson, Newcastle Chronicle, 24th May 2015

PBH responds to questions from Michael Legge

Michael Legge has just posted the following on Facebook. It does address some questions, particular the one about why PBH can't just take over the existing programme...

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th May 2015

Jason Byrne live, review: 'spiky and surreal'

Byrne prefers to engage - or rather, entrap - his audience in a freewheeling conversation that is part premeditated, part improvised and completely unhinged.

Andrew Pettie, The Telegraph, 24th May 2015

Still Game's Winston on new role in Yer Granny

Where his Still Game character Winston called for the Milton-born actor to age up twenty years, his latest role takes Paul back to the seventies when was a teenager.

Brian Beacom, Glasgow Evening Times, 24th May 2015

TV & radio

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV
7:15pm
45 min
Celebrity Squares. Warwick Davis. Copyright: September Films / GroupM Entertainment

Celebrity Squares

Series 2, Episode 6

Warwick is joined by Mr Selfridge star Katherine Kelly, former EastEnders star Nina Wadia, presenters Rylan Clark and Alice Levine, comedians Frank Skinner, Dane Baptiste and Aisling Bea alongside resident comedians Tim Vine and Joe Wilkinson, as Alex from Cheshire and Phai from London play for the jackpot.

Tonight At The London Palladium. Jason Manford. Copyright: ITV Studios

Tonight At The London Palladium

Series 2, Episode 4

Comedian Jason Manford presents a packed hour of entertainment, with stand-up comedy comes from Joe Lycett.

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