BCG Daily Sunday 3rd April 2016
Features
Press clippings
Plebs Series 3 preview
I must admit, that when Plebs was first announced, I wasn't sure a sitcom set in Ancient Rome would work. But boy was I wrong.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 3rd April 2016Review: Jason Cook's Comedy Club
I've genuinely never laughed as much as I did at last night's offering of Jason Cook's Comedy Club.
Vicki Newman, The Sunderland Echo, 3rd April 2016Black Mountain Poets review
Neither the jabs at literary types nor the ensemble jokes quite come off in this caper about two women trying to pass themselves off as poets.
Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 3rd April 2016Olivier Awards: Is the great West End comedy dead?
I can't see anyone getting that fussed about the [Best New Comedy] winner this year. It's not that Nell Gwynn, A Christmas Carol, Hand to God or Peter Pan Goes Wrong weren't all, in their own ways, admirable, but will any go on to be regarded as a classic?
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 3rd April 2016Showstopper! and Mark Gatiss win Olivier Awards
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has won the Best Entertainment and Family Show at the Olivier Awards tonight. Mark Gatiss won Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2016Showstopper! and Mark Gatiss win Olivier Awards
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has won the Best Entertainment and Family Show at the Olivier Awards tonight.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2016Podcasts
TV & radio
The Rest Is History
Series 2, Episode 1The guests for the opening episode of series two are Katy Brand and Pierre Novellie who discuss Hodge, the cat belonging to Doctor Samuel Pepys; Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton; and the Lyme Missal.
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Series 4, Episode 1Lee Mack returns with a new series of his hit panel show. First to sort their facts from their fiction are Dara O Briain, Davina McCall and Jessica Hynes.