BCG Daily Sunday 24th May 2015

Ruby Wax: Comedy a little painful when it isn't so hot

Ella Walker navigates a prickly conversation with the stand-up as she prepares to help the people of Cambridge "tame their minds."

Radio Times review

If variety should offer sights you never thought you'd see, this episode is a triumph. Among the entertainments is Jason Manford tap-dancing, a troupe of performing budgerigars and a Chinese group doing a "dance of a thousand hands" that would mesmerise Busby Berkeley himself.

Unlike the rest of the week on ITV, nobody here is buzzered off or pleading for the public to vote for them. They're just good. On the downside, pianist Lang Lang hooks up with Croatian duo 2Cellos for a clattering, bull-in-a-china-shop cover of Live and Let Die. Paul McCartney should sue.

Helen Lederer: where are TV's funny women?

Comedian Helen Lederer says there should be a wider range of comedy on television.

Who is causing Edinburgh's free gig chaos?

Whoever is to blame this is all a great shame.

Older women coming out as lesbians thanks to BBC

Older women have been coming out as lesbians after being inspired by Last Tango In Halifax, its star Sarah Lancashire says.

ITV give Frank Lampard little to laugh about

Management might look more attractive to ex-pros if appearing on panel shows is the alternative, writes Alan Tyers.

Newcastle-filmed Undercover to premiere in June

North East producer and co-writer are part of creative team behind series, starring Bafta-winning Daniel Rigby, which is about to air on Dave channel.

PBH responds to questions from Michael Legge

Michael Legge has just posted the following on Facebook. It does address some questions, particular the one about why PBH can't just take over the existing programme...

Jason Byrne live, review: 'spiky and surreal'

Byrne prefers to engage - or rather, entrap - his audience in a freewheeling conversation that is part premeditated, part improvised and completely unhinged.

Still Game's Winston on new role in Yer Granny

Where his Still Game character Winston called for the Milton-born actor to age up twenty years, his latest role takes Paul back to the seventies when was a teenager.