BCG Daily Thursday 31st October 2013
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Drifters: Jessica Knappett on her new show
Knappett is ambivalent about the resemblances. "There are similarities [to The Inbetweeners], in that we're a group of friends in a hinterland period of our lives," she ventures.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 31st October 2013Misfits series 5 episode 2 review
Misfits delivers an hilarious Rudy-focussed episode that showcases Joseph Gilgun's talents...
Caroline Preece, Den Of Geek, 31st October 2013Review: Jason Manford, Hammersmith Apollo
Enjoyable but unchallenging everyman comedy.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st October 2013Radio Times review
Teenagers and parents who ought to know better will recognise Jessica Knappett as Neil's klutzy love interest in The Inbetweeners Movie. She had a helping hand from Damon Beesley and Iain Morris - the comic brains behind that incorrigible foursome - when writing this. It's basically a female Inbetweeners, except this time our hapless heroines are also old enough to know better: three 20-somethings fresh from university and struggling to find their feet, never mind their rent. This opening double bill doesn't quite deliver. Yes, it's impudently indecorous but these ladies are too two-dimensional. Look out for Bob Mortimer as Knappett's long-suffering father.
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 31st October 2013Opinion: Comedy - A Serious Business
Is comedy respected as an art form? Andrew Learmonth makes an impassioned plea for Scotland to take its comic storytellers seriously.
Andrew Learmonth, The Skinny, 31st October 2013Why comedians are the last interesting people left
Comedians, uniquely, have nothing to sell but their opinions, and the way they package those opinions. They don't say attention-grabbing things to publicise their other work: saying attention-grabbing things is their work.
Helen Lewis, The New Statesman, 31st October 2013Opinion: Should we take comedians seriously?
It has been a busy time for big comedians lately. Not just busy doing gigs and panel shows and plugging their plethora of product, but also busy being taken seriously.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st October 2013Review: David Baddiel, Fame - Not the Musical
David Baddiel's comeback show is unfortunately too much of a humblebrag to be truly funny.
Sam Charles, London Is Funny, 31st October 2013PBS to air Vicious in America
British sitcom Vicious will be shown on PBS in America in 2014.
Deadline, 31st October 2013Steve Coogan may 're-animate' Alan Partridge for sequel
Steve Coogan has said that he may "re-animate" Alan Partridge for a sequel to Alpha Papa.
Digital Spy, 31st October 2013Comedy review: Jason Manford - First World Problems
No amount of gusto and oomph can make up for the hastily cobbled together shape of this show, pleasing in parts though it is.
Julian Hall, The Independent, 31st October 2013Misfits 5.2 review
Overall, this was a fun episode that provided a strong showcase for Gilgun and Cornwell, but it did lack a sense of surprise.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 31st October 2013Comedians: stop writing each other tetchy open letters
The public pseudo-conversation between celebrities such as Robert Webb and Russell Brand is excruciating.
Marina Hyde, The Guardian, 31st October 2013Jessica Knappett: why she's not a female Inbetweener
The writer and star of the new E4 sitcom talks Girls, Bob Mortimer, dressing up as a giant mobile phone and the second Inbetweeners movie...
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1:30pm30 min
Legend Of The Holyrood Vampires
Episode 4 - Victoria must defeat the queen vampireIn this final thrilling episode Victoria and her companions must defeat the queen vampire and save Edinburgh.
5:15pm15 min
Gigglebiz
Series 3, Episode 9Zany scientist Professor Muddles has some trouble with his pet cat and some itchy fleas, Nana Knickerbocker finds herself at a bus stop and thinks she's in the panto Dick Whittington and Storybook Stan tries and fails to read a winter's tale.
9pm30 min
Trollied
Series 3, Episode 11Gavin is back at work and doing his best to be a bit more like France. Plus, Colin and Lisa's stag and hen dos are almost upon them.
9pm30 min
Drifters
Series 1, Episode 1 - HomeReturning early to Leeds from a post-university gap-year tour of India, cousins Meg and Bunny - and friend Laura - do not get the smooth homecoming they had hoped for.
9:30pm30 min
Drifters
Series 1, Episode 2 - ScabiesMeg scores a hot date, much to Laura and Bunny's amazement. But it's after gate-crashing a party that things get really complicated.
10pm50 min
Celebrity Juice
Series 10, Episode 10 - Halloween SpecialPaddy McGuinness, Emma Willis, Kara Tointon and Union J join Keith Lemon, Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby for a Halloween special of the outrageous panel show.
11pm30 min
Seekers
Series 1, Episode 5 - The BabyStuart, Joe and Terry are left to look after a baby when someone leaves it under Terry's seat. Stuart decides to use the infant to show Nicola how mature he is, and in a moment of inspiration he claims it is his adopted child. However, when the incensed mother returns to find her baby strapped to him in a papoose, he begins to feel very stupid.