BCG Daily Sunday 8th May 2011

Alan Davies not amused by 'shoddy' treatment by BBC

Alan Davies, the star of Jonathan Creek, speaks out after the BBC failed to tell him face-to-face that it was dropping his sitcom.

McLynn: 'For Winnie the rule is: I talk therefore I am'

As a bit of a talker herself, Pauline McLynn finds plenty to say to about playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days.

Was Osama an IT Crowd fan?

Bizarre stories that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of The IT Crowd emerged last night.

Ford Kiernan interview

Ford Kiernan says: "Some sections of the press seem to have an idea that Greg and I fell out. We didn't. We still talk. The BBC just ran a raft of reruns of Still Game and got phenomenal ratings, which we were very surprised about. The characters might come back. Nobody died, nobody got killed off."

Why are Scotland's comedy hits not crossing the border?

Between them they have produced a sketch with more than two million YouTube hits, been dubbed the future of comedy by Little Britain's Matt Lucas, had a hit iPhone app, and are big in Australia.

HIGNFY, Room 101 composer Big George dies

George Webley, a radio DJ who also had a long career as a musician and composed TV theme tunes - including Have I Got News For You - has died aged 53.

Revealed: Truth about Osama and The IT Crowd

...it was actually Big Bang Theory he preferred.

Video: James Corden on return to the National Theatre

James Corden is returning to the National Theatre to star in a new play based on Carlo Goldoni's classic 'The Servant of Two Masters'.

Andrew Marr asks if it was a "golden comedy part which tempted him back to the National."

But James Corden says it was working with director Richard Bean that was the "gift".

Campus episode 5 review: Post Coital

Campus settles into a working pattern, just as the curtain is about to fall on the series. Here's Louisa's review...