BCG Daily Sunday 6th March 2016
Press clippings
Eshaan Akbar: his best supporter & audience member
Eshaan Akbar has become a familiar name on the comedy circuit in the last few months. He has featured in finals of various competitions and he won the Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year 2016 in January. Yesterday marked two years since Akbar did his first live stand-up gig. He has written this touching piece below about the most important woman in his life. We thought it would be appropriate to run it on Mother's Day.
Eshaan Akbar, Beyond The Joke, 6th March 2016What are the cast of 'Misfits' doing now?
Here's a look at what some of those cast members are doing now, just over two years since the show ended...
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 6th March 2016Ill Jenny Eclair pulls gigs
Jenny Eclair has cancelled two tour shows after coming down with a chest infection.
Chortle, 6th March 2016New age of alternative musical comedy
Yesterday afternoon, I went to a Quarter Final of this year's Musical Comedy Awards, which had 12 contestants performing. The Semi-Finals and Final are yet to come. The Awards have been running eight years and I had not been aware of them. Which demonstrates what I know about anything.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 6th March 2016John Prescott takes swipe at Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen is another "spoilt public schoolboy from the south kicking the north" John Prescott has said following the release of the comedian's new film, Grimsby.
Frances Perraudin, The Guardian, 6th March 2016John Hannah - What turns me on
The Four Weddings actor reveals why James Stewart makes him cry, Radiohead cheer him up, he's gripped by gruesome Shakespeare and he loves the villains in The Sweeney.
Mail on Sunday, 6th March 2016TV & radio
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Spot Bots
Episode 18 - Spotterfly SpottingCubi and Lexi must get switched on in order to photograph a super fast spotterfly.