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BCG Daily Monday 13th September 2010

Press clippings

In between The Inbetweeners

Displaced teenagers Simon, Will, Neil and Jay are heading back to school, where they face a final year of humiliation, social exclusion and female rejection.

Fiona Bailey, BBC News, 13th September 2010

Return of telly's funniest show

To fans of its filthy gags and puerile pranks, TV hit The Inbetweeners is the height of cool.

Colin Robertson, The Sun, 13th September 2010

Mr Bean celebrates 20 years

Mr Bean, the slow-witted yet endlessly entertaining TV character, celebrates 20 years of fame this week.

Ross McGuinness, Metro, 13th September 2010

The Inbetweeners: get set for a new term

Whisper it quietly, but there's another returning TV series about to begin which I'm even more excited about than Mad Men - The Inbetweeners on E4.

John Plunkett, The Guardian, 13th September 2010

Fry's digital delight at Penguin

Penguin is promising a "new and utterly original way to present an author's work through visual indexing" in its myFry i-Phone app for the Stephen Fry memoir The Fry Chronicles, launched today (Michael Joseph).

Benedicte Page, The Bookseller, 13th September 2010

Culture clinic: Richard Briers

Actor Richard Briers submits to a little light therapy.

Richard Briers, The Telegraph, 13th September 2010

Talking love with Isy Suttie

Not content with invading (in the nicest possible way) our TV screens this autumn with Peep Show series 7 and Whites, Isy Suttie has a nice juicy run of shows at Soho Theatre.

London Is Funny, 13th September 2010

The Inbetweeners: series three, episode one

Let us know what you think of the teenagers' latest cringeworthy escapades in the E4 series.

John Plunkett, The Guardian, 13th September 2010

Rob Brydon going straight? You must be joking!

Rob Brydon is one of Britain's darkest and most gifted comedians - so why is he hosting an entirely traditional chat show? And what, for that matter, is going on with his hair?

Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 13th September 2010

Portrait of the artist: Isy Suttie, comedian

'I called a geeky-looking guy up on stage and he grabbed my left breast. It was horrible, but I carried on'.

Laura Barnett, The Guardian, 13th September 2010

Review: School of Comedy series two

The kids are as funny as last time, but the stand-out performance comes from Beth Rylance as Angharad, an irredeemably rude, blind, welsh woman who takes out her frustration on her doting husband Gerald.

Oli Jones, AOL, 13th September 2010

Videos

TV & radio

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 2, Episode 4 - Surfing

Peter has created a flattering but deeply inaccurate online profile for himself and now has a date. Sam is determined to go along.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Fridge

Staring Into The Fridge

James Nesbitt is the voice of a fridge in this kitchen comedy by Annie McCartney.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Series 57, Episode 7

Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

BBC Two 10pm
30 min
Grandma's House. Image shows from L to R: Simon (Simon Amstell), Tanya (Rebecca Front), Clive (James Smith). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Grandma's House

Series 1, Episode 6 - The Day Simon Finally Found The Strength To Accept That His Mother Was Getting Married

When Grandpa is taken ill, it's unsure whether Tanya and Clive will be able to get married today.

E4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
35 min
The Inbetweeners. Image shows from L to R: Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas), Will Mackenzie (Simon Bird), Neil Sutherland (Blake Harrison), Jay Cartwright (James Buckley). Copyright: Bwark Productions

The Inbetweeners

Series 3, Episode 1 - The Fashion Show

It's the start of term and Carli is organising a charity fashion show.

U&Dave channel logo 10:20pm
90 min
Al Murray: My Gaff, My Rules. Copyright: Avalon Television

Al Murray: My Gaff, My Rules

Recorded live at London's Playhouse Theatre, My Gaff, My Rules sees Al Murray's Perrier Award-winning comic creation on boisterous, ale-swilling form.

BBC Three 10:30pm
30 min
Him & Her. Image shows from L to R: Steve (Russell Tovey), Becky (Sarah Solemani). Copyright: Big Talk Productions

Him & Her

Series 1, Episode 2 - The Birthday

It's Steve's birthday and everyone wants to go out and get plastered - except Steve who is ill. Or at least he tells his mum and everyone else he is...

E4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10:35pm
30 min
School Of Comedy. Image shows from L to R: Max Brown, Will Poulter, Ella Ainsworth. Copyright: Left Bank Pictures

School Of Comedy

Series 2, Episode 1

See the return of The Saffas, Museum Perv and The Cabbie, and prepare to meet a raft of brand new pint-sized characters. The Filth - two self-referential coppers from the 1970s; Leonard Lizard - a repressed homosexual city trader from the 1980s and That Bitch and Gerald... in a quaint Welsh village lurks a very foul mouth.

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