BCG Daily Thursday 3rd February 2011

TV matters: Graham Norton

The Graham Norton Show is pioneering a fresh new format - with surprising results.

BBC's sitcom festival gives writers showcase chance

Comedy writers will have the chance to pitch their work to BBC commissioning editors and channel controllers as part of the Corporation's first ever sitcom festival, which will be run at the new Media City complex in Salford later this year.

Comic Relief TV Highlights

There's only one place to be on Red Nose Night - right in front of a TV screen for the main event.

Comic Relief 2011: What your money might raise....

All the money raised through Red Nose Day is spent by Comic Relief to help extremely poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people at home in the UK and across Africa.

Lara Stone poses as Monroe to launch Red Nose Day

Lara Stone looks a bit of all white as Marilyn Monroe launching this year's effort to get Red Nose Day in the black.

Video: Jack Dee - Maypole dancing with Boyle and Hague?

Jack Dee joined BBC Breakfast today to help launch the 2011 Comic Relief campaign: Do Something Funny for Money.

The comedian explains why his idea of maypole dancing with William Hague and Frankie Boyle was turned down!

Comic Relief's Red Nose Day is on the 18 March 2011.

Have You Been Watching... Not Going Out?

Lee Mack's sitcom is a crowd-pleaser with integrity - and this series is even more joyously silly than the previous three.

Fry shelves filming in Japan after atomic bomb outcry

Presenter pulls out of shooting BBC series Planet Word in Japan amid 'threats' over Hiroshima jokes made on quiz show QI.

Victoria Wood blames TV execs for lack of arts shows

Victoria Wood has blamed television executives who "don't know what they're doing" for the lack of arts programming on the main terrestrial channels, including BBC1.

Miranda Hart: 'I feel sorry for haters'

Miranda Hart has says that she feels sorry for people who take the time to send her hate mail.

Interview: Craig Hill

"I've developed a reputation where people say, 'Go see him, but don't sit down the front.' So now I just pick on people up the back," Craig Hill laughs.

A meeting with Mr Tumble

Mr Tumble and family, Gigglebiz, the Tweenies, Timmy Time ... is CBeebies star Justin Fletcher the hardest working man in TV? Kate Carter meets him.

QI: Quite interesting facts about wind

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI catches the wind.

Douglas Adams and the cult of 42

If you know The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, then you also know the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. But how did Douglas Adams come up with that number?

How TV Ruined Your Life: Review

Charlie Brooker's comedy is mixed with cynicism and imaginative descriptive observations that are impossible not to laugh out loud at. And the pace at which each episode runs may cause viewers to marvel at the amount of content intricately packed into each episode.