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BCG Daily Sunday 20th November 2011

Press clippings

This much I know: Jason Manford

The comedian, 30, on his hair, Peppa Pig, and doing gigs for a tenner.

Megan Conner, The Observer, 20th November 2011

Rory Bremner: 'I've always been a bit of a dilettante'

After Strictly, Rory Bremner has put his own spin on Orpheus in the Underworld.

Killian Fox, The Observer, 20th November 2011

Jimmy Carr: comedy's most wanted

He doesn't drink, rarely eats after 6pm and approaches every joke as if he were solving a puzzle. But for all his discipline, does Jimmy Carr sometimes go too far?

Nigel Farndale, The Telegraph, 20th November 2011

Sean Lock on his financial highs and lows

Comedian Sean Lock, panellist on 8 out of 10 Cats, host of television's TV Heaven, Telly Hell and Argumental and a regular on Have I Got News for You and QI, talks about his finances.

Justin Harper, The Telegraph, 20th November 2011

Micky Flanagan: The ragged-trousered controversialist

Micky Flanagan tells The Independent why he gave up teaching for stand-up and why he doesn't joke about Margaret Thatcher.

The Independent, 20th November 2011

Misfits: Series 3, Episode 4 review

This is what we've been waiting for ever since we saw old Friedrich getting powered-up last Christmas. It's Misfits at its most brazenly, balls-to-the-wall, brilliant.

Rob Smedley, Cult Box, 20th November 2011

Misfits: Series 3, Episode 4 review

Tonight's episode of Misfits was probably the most ambitious in the series so far, which for this show is really saying something. Full of satisfying callbacks to previous episodes and featuring our gang being put in some quite different situations to usual, it showed exactly how to do an alternate universe episode.

Transmission Blog, 20th November 2011

A League of Their Own - and they're welcome to it

James Corden's self-delight continues to make Piers Morgan look like a poster boy for low self-esteem, and genuine laughs remain in shorter supply than Sepp Blatter's black friends.

Martin Kelner, The Guardian, 20th November 2011

Review of Misfits - series 3, episode 4

Who would have thought Seth's throwaway comment about an old Jewish man travelling back in time to kill Hitler would become an episode?

Neela Debnath, The Independent, 20th November 2011

Videos

TV & radio

BBC Radio 5 Live 11am
60 min
History Repeats Itself. Danny Baker. Copyright: Campbell Davison Media

History Repeats Itself

Episode 3

TV archaeologist Neil Oliver, writer India Knight and DJ Baylen Leonard join Danny Baker.

CBeebies logo. Credit: BBC 11am
25 min
Justin's House. Image shows from L to R: Justin (Justin Fletcher), Little Monster, Robert the Robert (Steven Kynman). Copyright: BBC

Justin's House

Series 1, Episode 14 - Robert's Holiday

Robert is so hard-working that Justin decides to send him on holiday. The only problem is that Robert doesn't want to go, because for him, every day is a holiday in Justin's house.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 1, Episode 2

Sue Perkins is joined by Nick Revell, Danielle Ward, journalist Grace Dent, and the lead singer of the Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky Wilson.

E4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
60 min
Misfits. Image shows from L to R: Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), Kelly (Lauren Socha), Simon (Iwan Rheon), Alisha (Antonia Thomas), Rudy (Joe Gilgun). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Misfits

Series 3, Episode 4

An old Jewish man plans to use Curtis's old time-rewind super-power to go back in time and kill Hitler.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
70 min
Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Alan Carr. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Series 7, Episode 4 - Lady Gaga, Dannii Minogue, Peter Kay

The iconic Lady Gaga graces Alan's sofa. Plus Alan also talks to Dannii Minogue and Peter Kay.

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