BCG Daily Saturday 12th March 2016
Press clippings
Katherine Ryan: Kathbum - The Lowry, Salford - review
It's fun to see an hour of such confident, kick-ass comedy from a comedian at the top of her game. In fact, it's over before you know it and you're left wanting more.
Jo Beggs, The Reviews Hub, 12th March 2016Do you laugh at Grimsby, or does it laugh at you?
I wish I could believe more avidly in Baron Cohen's brand of guerrilla comedy, in what he views as his moral imperative to entrap and then push the buttons of bigots, anti-Semites, and members of the wealthy ruling class. In the course of planning the above prank, he tells his crew that you "don't have to be funny to be satirical." But what in the end was he satirizing? All I can see is a peculiar -- and unexamined -- sadism.
David Edelstein, Vulture, 12th March 2016TV preview: Stag, BBC2, episode 3
It is so hard to write about this excellent comedy thriller without giving something away. Needless to say the final episode in which the loose ends have to be tied up - probably around one of the cast's necks - is the toughest to discuss. One slip and the game may be given away.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2016Grimsby bombs at the Box Office
The movie, which reportedly had a $35-$37million (roughly £25million) budget, pulled in just $1.2million in North America and $7.1million in other territories - resulting in a worldwide total of about $8.3million (£5.5million).
Katy Forrester, The Mirror, 12th March 2016Brendan O'Carroll reveals the TV that makes him tick
The 60-year-old Irishman is no stranger to making great TV, but here he tells the Sunday Mirror about his favourite programmes.
Emma Pryer, The Mirror, 12th March 2016Stag: episode 3 review
As we reach the bloody conclusion of the stag party from Hell, it is probably safe to say that no-one will guess who the killer is.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 12th March 2016My evening with Noel Fielding
The point was we were all together, the flamboyant and the quiet Noel lovers, all eager to witness whatever hilarious weirdness he was about to throw at us.
Carmen Croghan, Everything I Know About The UK..., 12th March 2016Review: Ed Byrne at the Auditorium at ECHO arena
Outside Looking In is what Ed Byrne reckons as a comedian he does, being one of life's observers rather than do-ers.
Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo, 12th March 2016Ed Byrne talks comedy and feminism
"I didn't make a conscious effort to write a more personal show, but that was what was coming out when I started writing it."
Francesca Perryman, Reading Post, 12th March 2016Alexei Sayle on Labour
If Jeremy Corbyn is going to reform the party in his own kindly image, my next act is going to have to be about sandwiches.
Alexei Sayle, The Guardian, 12th March 2016Al Murray: I've always had an instinct to conform
Not one bit of my life has turned out as I imagined it would. My scrawny 10-year-old self would be astonished to see me now, not least because I've filled out and got a beard.
Olivia Parker, The Telegraph, 12th March 20169 reasons Noel Fielding would be the best Doctor Who
Noel Fielding, star of The Mighty Boosh and former Never Mind The Buzzcocks panelist, might not seem like the typical choice to play the fourteenth Time Lord. But Doctor Who badly needs an injection of fun, irreverence and style - and Fielding has all these in spades.
Olivia Waring, Metro, 12th March 2016TV & radio
10:45am15 min
11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 13, Episode 23Georgie Ainslie is judge and jury over presenter Rick Edwards, British Badminton Olympic silver medallist Gail Emms, former British Athlete Christian Malcolm and comedian Justin Moorhouse.
8pm60 min
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised
The legendary Neil Innes looks back at the influence and influences of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the collision of art, humour, music, language and anarchy that permeated the band's career.
8:30pm60 min
You're Back In The Room
Series 2, Episode 1This episode sees the five contestants set the task of pampering five of the Loose Women.
9pm60 min
Stag
Episode 3The remaining members of the group pull together in an attempt to uncover the identity of their killer - and survive the stag weekend from hell.
9pm60 min
Lee Evans: Monsters
A TV broadcast of Lee Evans' final stand-up tour, recorded in 2014.
9:30pm65 min
The Jonathan Ross Show
Series 10, Episode 10 - Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Marlon Wayans, Carrie UnderwoodJonathan chats to Oscar-nominated star of stage and screen Glenn Close, X Files and The Fall star Gillian Anderson, and Scary Movie and Fifty Shades of Black's Marlon Wayans. Award-winning US singer Carrie Underwood also performs live.