BCG Daily Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Press clippings
Linford Christie is a fan of Love Thy Neighbour
The British sprinter loved the comedy, which is now frowned upon for featuring a racist central character: "It was fun and good banter".
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 30th June 2015Edinburgh preview: Beasts
What is clear is that they conjure up a spirit of organised mayhem onstage that will appeal to comedy fans who like their sketches equal parts daft and deft.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th June 2015Sacha Dhawan researched drug-taking Danny role online
For actor Sacha Dhawan, playing incompetent in all things but the acquisition of hard drugs, was a novel challenge.
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 30th June 2015Sacha Dhawan: My generation don't care who plays a part
He's one of the most prominent new British-Asian faces on television, starring in Line Of Duty, Utopia and C4's new comedy Not Safe For Work. Meet the rising actor who won't let his ethnicity define him.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 30th June 2015Interview: Gary McNair
Theatremaker follows up a great Fringe 2014 with A Gambler's Guide to Dying at the Traverse.
Lorna Irvine, The List, 30th June 2015Spencer Jones interview
Spencer Jones was a student of Philippe Gaulier and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Doctor Brown. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his debut television show Big Babies. Spencer explains to Martin Walker why he chose to be a clown.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 30th June 2015New comedy competition launched
Magners is launching a search to find the UK's best new comedian.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th June 2015Season 3 Episode 2 review: Heartbreaking
You just want so much for things to be okay, and they're not right now. With only one episode still remaining, gosh, I hope they will be.
Sami Kelsh, Cult Box, 30th June 2015Radio Times review
Miles Jupp returns as the jovial host, who manages to slip in some boundary-pushing quips - gasps from the audience on one occasion - under the guise of his apparently gentle delivery.
His guests are also comical - Sarah Millican, Nathan Caton and Richard Osman. But the biggest laughs come from the answers given by the three individuals they have nominated as people who know them really well. Millican selects her friend Lou (a fellow comic); Caton picks on, quite literally, his younger brother; and Osman chooses his mother, whom he claims for most of the show is using her "posh" voice, the one she favours when she answers the telephone.
It's akin to a re-versioned Mr And Mrs, with friends and family members instead of spouses, but it's a damn sight funnier - even potatoes get a laugh.
Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 30th June 2015BBC Three online move approved by BBC Trust
Plans to move BBC Three online in January 2016 have been provisionally approved by the BBC Trust.
BBC News, 30th June 2015Not Safe for Work: This Life for a new generation?
Channel 4's new drama about young people saddled with debt, unable to afford to buy a house and struggling to find work aims to define a generation in the way This Life and Peep Show did for their audiences.
Sarah Hughes, The Guardian, 30th June 2015Episodes review
Now in its fourth series, the Anglo-American show-within-a-show has got looser, broader, dafter, ruder - and as unmissable as Matt LeBlanc's greatest hit.
Dan Martin, The Guardian, 30th June 2015Zawe Ashton on her role in Not Safe For Work
"The emotional journey does belong to a woman and I thought that was something I hadn't read for a long time... That's what felt so refreshing and exciting when I read the script."
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 30th June 2015BBC Three comedy budget slashed by 25%
BBC Three's comedy budget is to be slashed by a quarter when it moves online.
Chortle, 30th June 2015Katy Brand on her second novel: Brenda Monk Is Famous
Katy Brand has released details of her second novel, Brenda Monk is Famous - which is available to pre-order now via pledge site Unbound.
The Velvet Onion, 30th June 2015PC is the best thing that's happened to comedy
Ria Lina talks about the benefits political correctness has had on comedy.
Ria Lina, Chortle, 30th June 2015Fringe interview: Fern Brady
Set for her full Fringe debut, the Scottish stand-up tells us how meditation classes have helped her show.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 30th June 2015Fringe interview: Megan Ford - Feminasty
"Our egos have evolved beyond that sort of vanity".
Brian Donaldson, The List, 30th June 2015Not Safe for Work, episode 1, review
Channel 4's new drama lives up to its name but is less than the sum of its parts, says Michael Hogan.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 30th June 2015Troubles and strife make for great comedy
IT'S NOT hard not to hate actor/writer David Ireland.
Brian Beacom, The Herald, 30th June 2015Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
Wussywat The Clumsy Cat
Episode 7 - GlueWhile Ortus is clearing out the shed, Wussywat and Jinja find a scooter and a skateboard to race with.
It's Not What You Know
Series 3, Episode 1Richard Osman and his mother, Sarah Millican and her mate Lou, and Nathan Caton and his brother Mekel answer questions about each other.
Undercover
Episode 3 - The WireThe Police see the release of Ara's henchman Tommi Lylozian from prison as an opportunity to make some real headway.
Brotherhood
Episode 5 - MatingDan's love life is a disgrace so Poppy decides it's time she finds him a date... easier said than done. Toby makes a new 'mate' and Jamie is on the receiving end of Auntie Debbie.