BCG Daily Tuesday 10th January 2012
Press clippings
Python's Terry Gilliam - DIY animation 101
Ever wonder how that giant foot came down at the beginning of the classic opening to Monty Python's Flying Circus or how any of the other buffer elements between show segments were created?
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 10th January 2012Ronnie Corbett collapsed while celebrating honour
Ronnie Corbett collapsed while celebrating his New Year Honour, the funnyman's wife has revealed.
The Mirror, 10th January 2012Stephen Fry to judge H2G2 animation comp
TV presenter Stephen Fry is to judge an international competition, launched by literature and technology site The Literary Platform, to animate an audio recording of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams.
Charlotte Williams, The Bookseller, 10th January 2012Chris O'Dowd walking on the Moone with new TV shoot
For lots of us heading out to work at the start of the week, it's just another manic Monday. But actor Chris O'Dowd said it was a "magical" feeling reporting for work in his hometown yesterday as shooting got under way on a new TV comedy he has co-written.
Majella O'Sullivan, The Independent (Ireland), 10th January 2012The Royal Bodyguard takes a tumble
BBC1 David Jason sitcom falls well below 3 million viewers - less than half of what it began with two weeks ago.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 10th January 2012Frankie Boyle attacks new laws against religious hatred
Comedian says offensive behaviour law is 'an attack on freedom of speech', and makes a joke at the expense of the McCanns.
Matt Trueman, The Guardian, 10th January 2012Can The Inbetweeners Movie fly the flag?
The fate of those four horny sixth-formers, currently on world tour, will tell us a lot about the prospects for British film overseas.
Phil Hoad, The Guardian, 10th January 2012Greg Hemphill: stress ended Ford Kiernan friendship
Still Game star Greg Hemphill has revealed how the pressure of filming six series of the hit comedy ended his partnership with Ford Kiernan - and killed their friendship.
Paul English, Daily Record, 10th January 2012Justin Moorhouse is Celebrity Mastermind record-breaker
Justin Moorhouse scored 17 points in the general knowledge round of Celebrity Mastermind - the highest tally in any of the celebrity versions of the hit BBC brainteaser.
Dianne Bourne, Manchester Evening News, 10th January 2012Mrs Brown's Boys holds strong
Mrs Brown's Boys was the only bright spark in BBC One's comedy lineup last night.
Paul Millar, Digital Spy, 10th January 2012Review: The One Jasper Carrott (BBC1)
Taken as a whole, The One Jasper certainly wasn't great, but the strength of Carrott's stand-up material was better than I expected without longtime writers Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight (although I missed hearing another of his rambling "true stories", like the one about the vicious cat he had to pickup using a vacuum cleaner, or the infamous garden mole).
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 10th January 2012TV & radio
2pm30 min
Laughed Off The Page
Series 4, Episode 2 - Greg HemphillGreg Hemphill speaks to Janice Forsyth about his writing partnership with Ford Kiernan and how they went on to enjoy huge success with the sitcom Still Game.
4:30pm30 min
Pixelface
Series 2, Episode 2 - Quit Bugging MeAlexia and Claireparker are driving the rest of the team mad with their constant childish competitions to prove which one of them is the best.
6:30pm30 min
Mark Steel's In Town
Series 3, Episode 6 - WiganMark performs from The Orwell in Wigan, Greater Manchester, where he talks about entering pie eating competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism of George Formby.
10pm75 min
Shameless
Series 9, Episode 2Carl arrives back on the Chatsworth as a qualified policeman, but not everyone welcomes him back with open arms. Jackson is fingered for falsely claiming benefits, resulting in the withdrawal of his teaching job, and his marriage is thrown into chaos.
11pm15 min
I, Regress
Series 1, Episode 2Robin Hood - no relation - comes to Dr Matt Berry with a fear of spiders. The diagnosis seems to be that this may all be down to an unusually potent encounter between an arachnid and a South African grandmother...