BCG Daily Sunday 24th January 2010
Press clippings
This Week's TV: Bellamy's People
Paul Whitehouse returns to form with a gentle spoof of the celebrity road trip that's packed with glorious loons.
Simmy Richman, The Independent, 24th January 2010How Chris Morris fixed his eye on ideology and bombers
Best known for TV's Brass Eye and The Day Today, Chris Morris has made his directorial debut at the Sundance festival with a film about British suicide bombers.
Nick Fraser, The Observer, 24th January 2010British film satire on suicide bombers launched in US
Chris Morris's Four Lions - about Muslim suicide bombers in Britain - premiered at the Sundance film festival last night.
The Observer, 24th January 2010Why I Love - Harry Hill
The man is a modern day hero, and frankly, he's just not being recognised as much as he should be, even though he does have two shows on at primetime on a Saturday and has won a pretty impressive stack of awards. But if rumours are to be believed, he may soon be taking TV Burp off to Sky, which would be a great loss to terrestrial TV.
Lynn Rowlands-Connolly, Unreality TV, 24th January 2010Gavin wants to call it quits with Stacey
Although Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb, his co-stars in Gavin & Stacey, have set their hearts on seeing the award-winning BBC comedy series turned into a film, Matthew Horne tells me that it would be "a terrible idea."
Tim Walker, The Telegraph, 24th January 2010Rock And Chips review
All in all, Rock And Chips is an enjoyable and nostalgic one-off. Don't expect a laugh-out-loud comedy, though. It's darker and more thoughtful, bittersweet, even.
Alex Westthorp, Den Of Geek, 24th January 2010Ian Pattison: I'm nothing like Rab C Nesbitt
The writer claims his string-vested creation won't be out of place on our televisions after a lengthy hiatus.
Gillian Bowditch, The Times, 24th January 2010Rock & Chips on BBC One Review
The signs were on Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips being an awful barrel scraping experience, but although the laughs were low it was surprisingly good.
Steven Cookson, Suite 101, 24th January 2010Videos
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9:50am15 min
11am60 min
7 Day Saturday
Series 1, Episode 3Chris Addison, Andy Zaltzman, Sarah Millican and Holly Walsh pull apart the week's big stories to see what makes them tick.
9pm90 min
Rock & Chips
Episode 1 - Rock & ChipsIn Peckham, the Trotters are all under one roof: Grandad, Joan, husband Reg and the teenage Del Boy. Things suddenly change, however, when ex-con Freddie Robdal appears.