BCG Daily Tuesday 23rd February 2016

Sacha Baron Cohen owes Grimsby more than a few laughs

The new movie is set in the fishing town in North East Lincolnshire that gets a lot of stick for allegedly being full chavs, druggies and pregnant teenagers - and Katy Forrester gives her opinion on Sacha Baron Cohen's new flick.

Fresh Meat, Channel 4, TV review

The antics of this larger-than-life lot still appeals way beyond the student realm.

Fresh Meat review: time to grow up, sadly

Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's excellent comedy drama isn't quite as fresh as it once was - but it hasn't gone off. Just aged a little.

Grimsby review

Sacha Baron Cohen's jokes aren't at the expense of his latest creation - the football obsessed, kebab-munching Nobby - but at the people who imagine the character really exists.

Isy Suttie review

Laidback comedy about finding The One.

How will 27 marathons affect Eddie Izzard?

Comedian Eddie Izzard is running 27 marathons on 27 consecutive days to raise money for Sport Relief. But how does such an arduous journey affect the human body, asks Robert Spencer.

Caitlin Moran on representation of working class on TV

Considering the significance television has in many people's lives, it needs to show us richer, more diverse characters says the Raised by Wolves writer.

David O'Doherty to write third children's book

David O'Doherty is to publish a third children's book in his Danger is Everywhere series.

Video: Will Baron Cohen go to Oscars as Nobby?

Actress Isla Fisher talks about appearing in her husband's latest film Grimsby and what it is like at home when he comes back in character.

The film sees Baron Cohen play his latest alter-ego Nobby, a hapless, beer drinking football fan who ends up having to save the world.

Fisher told BBC News that she and her husband were heading to the Oscars and that he might attend as 'Nobby'.

Isy Suttie interview

In Isy Suttie's new memoir she plays pool with soldiers, sprints naked into the Celtic Sea and downs Sambuca on a rope swing. Trying - and failing - to remain in her 20s was an exhausting time, she tells Hazel Davis.

Everything you need to know about Flowers

Today Channel 4 announced details of their new dark new sitcom Flowers that partners Broadchurch's Olivia Colman and The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt.

Royle Family could be back as soon as this year

It's been a while since we enjoyed the unique company of The Royle Family - but the drought could almost be over as they could be back with us as early as this year.

Richard Herring's ten best interviews

Lorcan Mullan celebrates 100 RHLSTP episodes.

Grimsby film review

Sacha Baron Cohen's joyous ride that takes the 'grim' out of Grimsby.

Grimsby: Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous balls-fest

Can the brains behind Borat deliver more shocks up North?

Review: Grimsby

The British actor shifts into spoof mode with this knockoff of spy movies. Has he gone soft?

Grimsby review

Did Mark Strong lose a bet with Sacha Baron Cohen? His character is so demeaned, degraded and humiliated in new film Grimsby that one wonders if Strong owed the comedy star and paid him back by allowing a variety of bodily fluids to be sprayed on his person.

Grimsby review

Bad taste can be hilarious, shaking a laugh from even the most reserved, and opening minds to new worlds. But there are also tastes so bad they just make you retch. That's Grimsby, a feature-length version of gross-out joke The Aristocrats that puts all its emphasis on shock and none on genuine provocation.

Grimsby review

Sacha Baron Cohen's exceedingly silly, incorrigibly lewd, intermittently hilarious new film is being released in the US as The Brothers Grimsby.

Grimsby review: impossible not to hate it

As a film watcher I can be very critical and forthright with my opinions, but there are very few films that get to me in such a way I'd actually say I hate them. Oh, there are movies that are completely boring from start to finish, movies that miss the mark to such an extent it's impossible to not get unbridledly annoyed by them and movies that are so incompetently made that they barely even qualify as a movie. But there are only really a handful of films I would say that I actively hate. Grimsby is one of them.

Grimsby review

There's a jumbo-sized gag in Sacha Baron Cohen's latest that's as hilariously outrageous as anything in Borat. But on the whole, Grimsby has its creator-slash-star operating on a tamer, more sentimental register than usual, even when giving himself a pube goatee or doing alarming things to a certain ex-child actor.

'Grimsby': review

Sacha Baron Cohen didn't become a household name by pulling his punches. While his latest subversion Grimsby is ostensibly a routinely lowbrow British comedy, it's also a something of stealth device to test the waters as to how far down he can bottom-feed. The answer is: deep. Grimsby is unflinchingly dirty as Baron Cohen mucks around with Little Britain's class war and its Benefits Street 'welfare scum'.

Review: Grimsby

Sacha Baron Cohen's football hooligan comedy is a half-successful blend of laughs and action movie.

Fresh Meat Series 4 Episode 1 recap (Link expired)

The Fresh Meat gang returned to our screens last night for the beginning of the end (of term, and the show's four-series run). While it didn't quite get off to a flier, there was enough to keep fans interested.