BCG Daily Wednesday 10th July 2013
Press clippings
Campaign to bring Impractical Jokers to the North East
Last week, BBC Three confirmed the return of hidden camera show Impractical Jokers. Giggle Beats' Nic Wright reports on how a channel that communicates solely in hashtags has revived the prank show format - and why they should bring it to Tyneside.
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 10th July 2013Camden Fringe head honcho picks comedy highlights
Once again the Camden Fringe arrives this summer (July 29 to August 25) with a wealth of comedy, theatre, music and more. Over to Camden Fringe's own Michelle Flower, for 10 shows that she is particularly excited about ...
London Is Funny, 10th July 2013Rory Kinnear interview
Despite the hype, Rory Kinnear will not be the new Time Lord. But with starring roles in BBC comedy Count Arthur Strong and an unmissable new Channel 4 drama, his TV future looks bright.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 10th July 2013The Rubberbandits: the true meanings behind the songs
The 'hardcore gangster rap' duo from Limerick explain the true meanings behind their songs.
Time Out, 10th July 2013Opinion: The Wright Way is axed. Did Twitter kill it?
There was an interesting suggestion however, that it was not a failure in the ratings department that caused its demise but the vitriolic response to the series on Twitter from Elton-haters.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th July 2013Reece Shearsmith: I'm very unsure of myself as a person
Starring in a new film and two sitcoms, the fourth member of The League of Gentlemen is about to become a lot more visible. Not that he wants to.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th July 2013Christopher Guest: an unlikely aristocrat
As his new sitcom Family Tree begins on BBC Two, Anglo-American comedian and baron Christopher Guest talks to Benji Wilson about his aristocratic ancestors, his considerable comedy infleunce and of course, Spinal Tap.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 10th July 2013Paula Hines: Writing Narrative Radio Comedy
As I found myself verbally pitching my new radio comedy idea to Jane Berthoud (Head of Radio Comedy) and Kate Rowland it was hard to believe how far all of our ideas had come in just three days.
Paula Hines, BBC Writersroom, 10th July 2013Wright Way goes wrong: how social media is changing TV
As Ben Elton and Peter Kay feel the heat of Twitter's critics and communal viewing makes a comeback, Mark Lawson asks if broadcasters are running scared.
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 10th July 2013Edgar Wright invites his drinking buddies to premiere
The director of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's apocalyptic comedy has asked the pub crawl mates who inspired the film to attend its London premiere.
Susanna Lazarus, Radio Times, 10th July 2013New song aims to get people giving at the Free Fringe
Musical comedy act Jonny Awsum has recorded a song urging people to give money during Free Fringe shows.
Such Small Portions, 10th July 2013SSP at Mimetic: the best acts in comedy come to Enfield
We're bringing Tony Law, Chris Dangerfield and more to Enfield July 20-26. Come join us...
Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 10th July 2013Edinburgh Previews at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
Comedy promoter and Hebburn actor Neil Grainger explains his choices for some July previews...
Neil Grainger, Such Small Portions, 10th July 2013Edinburgh Previews this Sunday
Daniel Simonsen, Pat Cahill and more on the bill...
Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 10th July 2013Edinburgh Fringe interview: Gerry Howell
Establishing himself as one of the comedy circuit's most lovable eccentrics, Gerry Howell's performances verge from surreal waffling to ludicrous rambles, segueways, nonsequiturs, tall-tales and shaggy-dog stories, poems and ponderings, with his charisma carrying the nonsense effortlessly.
Laugh Out London, 10th July 2013Is Shane Allen doing the Wright thing for BBC comedy?
New Controller of Comedy Commissioning at the BBC, Shane Allen, yesterday announced which of the corporation's sitcoms, new and established, are to be axed, and which are to be returning. However, has he made the right choices about the recommissioning and cancellation of certain shows?
Matthew McLane, UK TV Reviewer, 10th July 2013The World's End review
TWE is spiked with enough genuine surprises to more than maintain your interest until the last leg, and there's a bounty of sci-fi references for genre fans.
Total Film, 10th July 2013The 23 most surprising facts learned from QI
Hello, and welcome to QI, where fools rush in, and angels suddenly remember they have a prior engagement.
BuzzFeed, 10th July 2013Milton Jones: Comedy is like panning for gold
Mock the Week star Milton Jones on being a one-line genius and how to switch from being weird to being likable.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 10th July 2013Videos
Online
Podcasts
TV & radio
5pm25 min
Strange Hill High
Series 1, Episode 10 - Teacher's PetOrdered to tidy up a science lab by Abercrombie, Becky is distracted by an array of school pets in cages. Mitchell and Templeton are more interested in a Matter Transmogrifier - and there are soon giant rabbits roaming the halls.
6:30pm30 min
The Brig Society
Series 1, Episode 3 - PrisonMarcus has been given his own prison, and looks into the problems of overcrowding, radicalisation, and synocpated tray-banging.
9pm60 min
Love And Marriage
Episode 6When Pauline is invited to Paris by her new man, Ken realises it is time he accepted that things are over and started making changes. Out with the old and in with the new, but he soon realises that he doesn't like the new. Is it too late to get his old life back?
10pm30 min
Some People With Jokes
Series 1, Episode 1 - Some Vicars With Jokes: Volume 1Clergy folk from around the UK swap the good book for the joke book and share their favourite gags. Old, new, clean, not so clean, these vicars are hell bent on getting us laughing.