BCG Daily Monday 11th January 2016
Press clippings
Tracey Ullman: 'This PC stuff can be really sanitising'
As she returns with her first UK TV show in over 30 years, Tracey Ullman talks to Patrick Smith about un-PC comedy and women being in charge.
Patrick Smith, The Telegraph, 11th January 2016How Tracey Ullman came home to the BBC
Tracey Ullman might just be the most important woman in the history of British comedy.
Ben Dowell and Stephen Armstrong, Radio Times, 11th January 2016Crashing is a funny, smart sitcom
If Friends is all about the enviable, dream flat-share, Crashing is about precisely the opposite. In fact, after just one episode of Channel 4's new series, your tiny rented hovel may suddenly seem much more appealing.
Kasia Delgado, Radio Times, 11th January 2016Ricky Gervais Golden Globes monologue pulls no punches
"I'm going to be nice tonight," Ricky Gervais promised the assembled Hollywood luminaries in the Beverly Hilton Hotel's ballroom - a promise that expired approximately once sentence later.
Scott Bixby, The Guardian, 11th January 2016Stone me! Missing Hancocks axed
BBC pulls plug with ten episodes still unrecorded.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 11th January 2016Hulu nabs British comedy 'My Mad Fat Diary'
Hulu has acquired exclusive streaming VOD rights to three seasons of the British comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary.
Variety, 11th January 2016Tracey Ullman's Show review
The BBC were rightly chuffed to have signed Tracey Ullman for her return to the British TV after 30 years: she's a brilliant comic actress, as evidenced in every scene of her her show, and a bona fide international TV star.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th January 2016TV Preview: Crashing
I guess the nearest comparison is not Peep Show or Friends, but Fresh Meat with a slice of Skins tossed into the mix for good measure.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th January 2016Hyperdrive: Where are they now?
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the first episode of British sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive.
Anglonerd, 11th January 2016Crashing, episode 1, Channel 4, review: 'clumsy'
This new comedy about twentysomethings living in a disused hospital was like a hipster take on Miranda, says Michael Hogan.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 11th January 2016Robert Newman: 'Remember Bowie's Nazi leanings'
Rob Newman has reacted to the wave of posthumous admiration for David Bowie, by criticising the cultural icon's flirtation with Nazism.
Chortle, 11th January 2016Second series for John Shuttleworth
Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music.
Chortle, 11th January 2016Janey Godley, Kate Smurthwaite address Cambridge Union
Comedians including Janey Godley and Kate Smurthwaite are to debate romance in the Cambridge Union.
Chortle, 11th January 2016Channel 4 sitcom Crashing left viewers despairing
New Channel 4 show Crashing arrived on our screens tonight - and was met with near-unanimous distaste from viewers on Twitter.
Olivia Waring, Metro, 11th January 2016Our Trace is on top with spot-on spoofs
Pitch-perfect impressions are a tricky business. The look and the characterisation must be just so; to nail the voice, mannerisms and identify those tics that we don't realise are funny until someone shows us they are. For magic, you also need a razor-sharp twist on a character that's both surprising but moreish, televisually speaking. Tracey Ullman succeeded in all of the above in this first episode.
Sally Newall, The Independent, 11th January 2016Where is David 'Not The Magician' Copperfield?
"I am away all the time now because I do a lot of these cruise ships. I am retired. I have got a pension but I still love the business."
Paul Revoir, Radio Times, 11th January 2016Videos
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TV & radio
4pm15 min
Mr Bean
Series 2, Episode 32 - Car WashMr Bean builds a car washing machine that attracts all manner of customers.
4:30pm30 min
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Series 13, Episode 1 - Artificial Intelligence
6:30pm30 min
The Museum Of Curiosity
Gallery 8, Episode 1 - Meeting Forty-FourJoining John Lloyd and new curator Sarah Millican this week are comedian Holly Walsh, the author and adventurer David Bramwell and "Freakonomist" Stephen J. Dubner.
9pm60 min
Benidorm
Series 8, Episode 1We're back in Benidorm for more fun, sun and sangria! Tiger brings a friend along and a new family called the Dawsons are on holiday at the Solana. Joyce Temple-Savage is desperate for new staff, who will come to her rescue?
10pm30 min
Crashing
Episode 1It's practically peaceful in the disused hospital. That is, until the spontaneous arrival of Lulu, Anthony's oldest and least responsible friend.
10pm30 min
Insert Name Here
Series 1, Episode 2 - WilliamHugh Dennis, Lucy Porter, Omid Djalili and Alice Roberts are the guests in this second episode.
10:30pm30 min
Siblings
Series 2, Episode 2 - Golden AuntDan becomes his mother's dance partner at her salsa class, but when his aunt turns up and teaches him you can have anything you want, he decides to rebel. Hannah becomes convinced she's having a golden week.
10:45pm30 min
Tracey Ullman's Show
Series 1, Episode 1Tracey Ullman's return to British screens brings with it her unique take on some extraordinary characters living in, or visiting, the busy global hub that is the UK.