BCG Daily Saturday 14th January 2017

Press clippings

Manchester club responds to scathing TripAdvisor review

A comedy promoter had the last laugh when he gave this putdown of a scathing review of his show on TripAdvisor. Rob Riley, 51, thought the assessment of his 'poor' charity comedy night at a Saddleworth pub was so unfair he decided to strike back with an entertaining 867-word rebuttal. "I think the moral of the story could well be 'if you're going to a comedy night don't forget your sense of humour'."

Manchester Evening News, 14th January 2017

David Jason talks about whether he'd do more OFAH

Sir David Jason has revealed that under the right circumstances, he would return to the role of Del Boy one last time - but there's something getting in the way. The legendary actor, 76, believed that following the death of writer John Sullivan, the chances of it coming to pass is slim.

The Sun, 14th January 2017
Malcolm Hardee

Malcolm Hardee, squatters and the Cunning Stunt

In November and December last year, I posted a series of blogs about the late comic Malcolm Hardee's former floating pub/comedy club The Wibbley Wobbley. There were squatters living on board in November.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 14th January 2017

TV review: Chewing Gum, E4

It's good to have Chewing Gum back. It's very different to any other series I've seen recently, while at the same time it has echoes of the BBC hit Fleabag, which it preceded. If that programme was all Phoebe Waller-Bridge's idea about contemporary attitudes to sex, then Chewing Gum is very much Michaela Coel's view of modern romance.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th January 2017

Brendon Burns outrage with Anti-Australia Day comments

Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian Brendon Burns has caused a controversy following his remarks on television criticising Australia Day, which falls on Thursday, January 26. Being interviewed on Sky News in Australia the outspoken stand-up argued that Australians shouldn't celebrate Australia Day. He suggested that the day when fireworks events take place across the country is inappropriate and disregards the treatment of native Australians in the past. "It's not like Germans have an Auschwitz anniversary," he told the programme, before going on to say the Australians successfully committed genocide. "Probably best not to rub it in..."

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th January 2017

The BBC treated Only Fools stars as 'poor relations'

Del Boy, Pop Larkin, G-g-Granville... David Jason is pure TV gold and now he's back, aged 76, in Still Open All Hours. 'But don't get me started on BBC salaries,' splutters our f-f-favourite shopkeeper - or swearing, fame and those PC plonkers...

Louise Gannon, Daily Mail, 14th January 2017

Videos

TV & radio

BBC Radio 5 Live
11am
60 min
Colin Murray

Fighting Talk

Series 14, Episode 16

Olympic gold & bronze medallist and former GB & ENG hockey player Kate Richardson-Walsh, BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter Charlie Sloth, former Scottish and Chelsea footballer Pat Nevin and comedian Elis James.

Russia Today
10:25pm
30 min
Sam Delaney's News Thing. Sam Delaney

Sam Delaney's News Thing

Episode 2 - Trump's Golden Era

Sam asks what else we could make up about Donald Trump - seeing as everyone else is - and has a few choice words for Jeremy Corbyn.

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