BCG Daily Tuesday 1st February 2011

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Press clippings

Episodes episode 4 review

Awkward silences. Disbelieving glances. Sarcastic remarks. We're up to episode four of the BBC's glossy sitcom, Episodes, and already its style and situations are beginning to feel familiar.

Ryan Lambie, Den Of Geek, 1st February 2011

Come Fly With Me: ready for the return trip?

Is the Little Britain duo's follow-up worthy of a second series? Yeah, but no, but ... maybe yeah?

Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 1st February 2011

Hugh Dennis - My MI5 interview

Comedian Hugh Dennis, talking to Richard Bacon, recalls his job interview with MI5.

Richard Bacon, BBC, 1st February 2011

Michael McIntyre makes BGT contestant cry

New Britain's Got Talent judge Michael McIntyre reduced a nine-year-old boy to tears by buzzing him when he said Harry Hill was his favourite comic.

Leigh Holmwood, The Sun, 1st February 2011

I was led to believe Episodes radically improves from "Episode Four" onwards, but this was the week asphyxiation with a cushion felt preferable to watching the interplay between Matt Le Blanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig.

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 1st February 2011

Mark Watson: My war with Frankie Boyle

In the past few weeks, I briefly became a hot topic on Twitter; I was in a couple of national newspapers; I was written about exhaustively on every comedy website of note; and I became enough of a talking point - at least in certain small, Soho-based circles - that quite a few conversations I've had have begun with people asking, "How have you been?" You could say that I've been the centre of attention, which is what all comedians want, in a nutshell. So that's the good news.

Mark Watson, The New Statesman, 1st February 2011

TV & radio

5:15pm
30 min

Gigglebiz

Series 2, Episode 12

Food expert Dina Lady makes the perfect club sandwich, hapless fisherman Rod enjoys another unproductive day at the riverbank and unlikely health guru Keith Fit reveals the secret of great goalkeeping.

6:30pm
30 min

Rudy's Rare Records

Series 3, Episode 3 - Redemption Song

Thanks to some dodgy paperwork, Adam and Rudy are faced with the prospect of losing the lease on their shop in less than a year. Inspired by Rudy's claim that Bob Marley once cited Rudy's Rare Records as having the best toilet facilities in Birmingham, they take extreme action.