BCG Daily Saturday 14th January 2012

Greg Hemphill launches Twitter rant at Still Game fans

Still Game star Greg ­Hemphill yesterday launched an X-rated Twitter attack on fans calling on him to bring the show back.

Covers gallery: Monty Python stars

Ahead of Monty Python: Almost the Truth on Sky Arts 1 tonight, the Pythons on the cover of RT down the years.

The Arthur Lowe you might not know

Take a look at some of the erstwhile Captain Mainwaring's less famous comic turns.

Radio Times review

"The motivation behind A Touch of Cloth was simple," writes the show's creator Charlie Brooker. "Along with my co-writer, TV Burp's Dan Maier, I wanted to create the silliest programme we could muster, but disguise it as the most serious. Writing this was a joy: we all sat round a table attacking our favourite clichés and lobbing in as many extra gags as possible."

The result is a deadpan spoof of detective shows like Messiah and Luther, starring John Hannah as DI Jack Cloth and Suranne Jones as DC Anne Oldman. Expect lots of moody glances, disturbing flashbacks, gruesome crime scenes, and bits where a maverick cop battles with demons. Inner demons, not actual outer demons, obviously. Inner demons are cheaper to shoot - you don't need CGI.

Radio Times review

Mildly plummy, rapier-witted Jack Whitehall spends a week in a different British city, staying with a host family of strangers, and documenting his experiences. Along the way he visits Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle, Glasgow, Bristol and Essex, but the result is less a travelogue and more a vehicle for his polished TV persona (although his confidence was jarred when he met his host family in Glasgow and realised he'd snogged the daughter a few years previously while on a beach holiday).

At the end of each week, he presents what is essentially a madcap variety show at a local venue. He performs stand-up, which both celebrates and gently ribs each location, and reveals some of the candid-camera stunts he has carried out - in one city he convinced passers-by he was a doctor who had delivered a human baby from a pregnant cow!