BCG Daily Tuesday 11th April 2017
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Preview - Car Share
Car Share is a brilliant sitcom, in that thanks to it that it became cool to like Peter Kay again.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 11th April 2017The Nightly Show with Jason Manford review
With the lights dimmed comedian Jason Manford could pass for a less expensively-dressed James Corden. Which is presumably why ITV picked the motor-mouthed Mancunian as week seven presenter - yes it's been that long - of its flailing stab at an American-style chat show.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 11th April 2017Next series of Catastrophe could run for 10 episodes
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney are understood to be thinking of expanding the length of the fourth series of the Channel 4 comedy.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 11th April 2017Athletico Mince, comedy review
The live outing of Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson's comedy football podcast is a trip worth taking, writes Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 11th April 2017Julie Walters and Maxine Peake reflect on their friend
A year after her death, Victoria Wood's contemporaries pay tribute to the comedy legend.
Radio Times, 11th April 2017What Peter Kay's Car Share playlist can tell us
Stuart Maconie has been a friend of the comedian for decades - here he reveals how they bonded over pop music and being altar boys.
Stuart Maconie, Radio Times, 11th April 2017Pictures: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly transform
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly were pictured filming the world's most famous double act Laurel and Hardy for new flick Stan And Ollie on Monday in the West Country.
Daily Mail, 11th April 2017Peter Kay's Car Share Series 2 preview
The new series starts tonight of this award-winning sitcom, which gained much praise but which I found underwhelming, and even a tiny bit dull.
Julie McDowall, The National (Scotland), 11th April 2017Sian Gibson interview
Sian Gibson has reunited with Peter Kay for the most eagerly awaited comedy of the year, the second series of Car Share.
Rebecca Mahoney, TV Times, 11th April 2017Al Murray review
Sadly, the audience barbing and goading, although funny at points, ran on far too long and also disrupted the momentum of the thinly spread actual routines.
Joe Fuller, The Latest, 11th April 2017The definitive ranking of every Gavin & Stacey episode
Here's the definitive ranking of every Gavin & Stacey episode.
Ciara Knight, JOE, 11th April 2017Adam Kay review
As well as diagnosing the entertaining eccentricities of patients, musical comic Kay issues an electrifying clarion call on behalf of NHS staff.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 11th April 2017Peter Kay's Car Share Series 2 preview
Car Share is predominantly more 'warm feeling inside' comedy than the laugh-out-loud sort, though it certainly has its moments of the latter.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th April 2017Why don't the Olivier Awards have a stand-up category?
I was very honoured to be nominated for The Oliviers, and I'm absolutely sure The Red Shoes is a worthy winner of that category. But the reason I think my show was crowbarred into that category is: The Olivier Awards don't have a category for comedy. Well. They do. But it's comedy plays. There is no category for stand-up. Or, if you want to make that broader, one man/woman shows. So that means, for example, no category for Dawn French's beautiful Thirty Million Minutes, which played at The Vaudeville Theatre for ages.
David Baddiel, Beyond The Joke, 11th April 2017Charlie Brooker: "Satire is counter-productive"
In the wake of the rise of Donald Trump, the Weekly Wipe and Black Mirror creator says "satire and mockery have changed nothing".
Thomas Ling, Radio Times, 11th April 2017Peter Kay's Car Share playlist by the numbers
Here are the tracks pumping out of John's car - with a bit of statistical analysis thrown in.
Jonathan Holmes, Radio Times, 11th April 2017Al Murray on the Brexit culture wars
Comedians are getting it in the neck for a bias against leave supporters. But the normal rules of punching up and down no longer apply.
Al Murray, The Guardian, 11th April 2017Karen Koren: ready for a feast of Fringe fun
The deadline for registering shows for this year's Edinburgh Fringe is tomorrow at midday.
Karen Koren, Edinburgh Evening News, 11th April 2017Wodehouse Prize 2017 nominations announced
Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Baby (Jonathan Cape) bags the author her third shortlisting for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
Heloise Wood, The Bookseller, 11th April 2017Christopher Morahan obituary
Director and producer whose 60-year career spanned television, theatre and film - from The Jewel in the Crown to Pinter plays.
Michael Billington, The Guardian, 11th April 2017In search of the Withnail & I locations 30 years on
Three decades after the release of the cult British comedy, we go on holiday by mistake...
Adam Scovell, British Film Institute, 11th April 2017Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
The Missing Hancocks
Series 3, Episode 5 - The Three SonsThis modern morality tale tells the story of old Ebidiah Hancock and his three sons, all of whom are played by Hancock.
Car Share
Series 2, Episode 1John and Kayleigh find themselves, reluctantly, having to make the daily commute to work separately.
Our Friend Victoria
Episode 1 - AgeThis episode is presented by Victoria's long-term friend and collaborator Julie Walters, who looks at Victoria's take on age and those unforgettable characters who spanned generations.
The Nightly Show
Episode 32Jason Manford is joined on the sofa tonight by presenter Richard Osman and actress and model Kelly Brook.
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Series 5, Episode 8Alan Davies plays host to Susan Calman, Sophie Willan, Ivo Graham and Sanjeev Bhaskar as they debate Scotland, tin foil pants, instant mashed potato and a sometime celebrity parent who wasn't really famous at all.