BCG Daily Saturday 9th January 2010
Press clippings
Bill Bailey wings it with new comedy birdwatching show
... but how does the Buzzcocks funnyman rate Sesame Street's Big Bird, Pingu and the Eagles Of Death Metal?
Richard Vine, The Guardian, 9th January 2010And now for Jonathan Ross's third act
Jonathan Ross will have plenty of offers after his BBC exit.
Andrew Billen, The Times, 9th January 2010An audience with Adam & Joe's Adam Buxton
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish have carved themselves a small but cherished niche of homespun pop-cultural comedy. Their 6 Music radio show, with its film-and-music banter, call-and-response catchphrases ("Stephen! Just coming") and "Song Wars", in which they compose rival ditties on the same theme (Ikea meatballs, climate change), has the same quirky informality and cut-and-paste creativity as the movies they re-enacted with Star Wars figures on The Adam & Joe Show (1996-2001). They've been a double act since Westminster School but, as Cornish polishes the script for Spielberg's Tintin and their radio show enters what Buxton - the shorter, cuddlier one - hopes is a temporary hiatus, he is picking up his acting career (Stardust, Son of Rambow) this week as a hapless exec in The Persuasionists (BBC Two, Wed, 10pm) a sitcom that takes a broadly comic aim at the world of advertising. It's a world, he concedes, that is almost beyond parody because "it's so stuffed with morons and t***s and people who are behaving in a ridiculous way." He should know, because voiceover work has long paid his bills, as have more ill-fated advertising adventures (see below).
Ed Potton, The Times, 9th January 2010Star says there is more to come
Star Larry Lamb says there is more to come, as 140,000 fans join Facebook campaign to bring back Gavin and Stacey.
Liz Thomas, Daily Mail, 9th January 2010Michael McIntyre concert fraud probe
A man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud after a dispute involving a proposed concert that was allegedly set to feature comedy star Michael McIntyre.
Martin Lea, Bournemouth Echo, 9th January 2010TV & radio
11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 7, Episode 19Resident QI panellist Alan Davies guest hosts. The panellists are Mark Watson, Des Kelly, Martin Kelner and Eleanor Oldroyd.
7pm30 min
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Series 9, Highlights Special - The Best Of TV Burp 7Harry Hill dips into the archives for some more vintage Burp. Enjoy favourites including Ronald McDonald, Derek Acorah talking to a dog ghost and David Platt showing off his elaborate new handshake.