BCG Daily Friday 21st April 2017

News

Features

Press clippings

Preview - Have I Got News for You

One of the big questions in the comedy world at the moment is whether we are experiencing a new satire boom?

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 21st April 2017

Ian Hislop on Brexit, Trump and a bonkers year for news

The veteran satirist talks about the growth of his industry and the defiance of finding comedy in the worst things.

Michael Hodges, Radio Times, 21st April 2017

Working Title hires Mark Freeland

Working Title Television UK has hired former BBC comedy chief Mark Freeland to run its comedy unit.

TBI Vision, 21st April 2017

Funny Girl, Edinburgh Playhouse, Review

A rose of sheer perfection, Sheridan Smith has the UK's largest auditorium upstanding - loud and applauding - and even after the career she's had she still can't believe it.

Katie Stephen, Edinburgh Guide, 21st April 2017

Interview: Adam Larter talks to record breaking fans

David and Carole love comedy, to an almost unhealthy degree. David is the current Guinness world record holder for most Edinburgh shows watched during the festival when he saw 304 shows over the course of 27 days. This year the couple are attempting their "70707" challenge, looking to see 70 different Fringe shows at 70 different Fringe venues in Edinburgh in just 7 days.

Adam Larter, Laugh Out London, 21st April 2017

Reginald D Hunter interview

'Getting married, having kids is one ideal. But it's not my ideal'. The American comedian explains how his relationship with his mother affected his life and how you have to leave your home to make sense of it.

Angela Wintle, The Guardian, 21st April 2017

Car Share's Forever FM goes on Manchester DAB

Fictitious radio station Forever FM - as heard on BBC 1's Car Share - has been turned into a real thing and put on the small-scale DAB multiplex in Manchester.

Radio Today, 21st April 2017

The Philanthropist review

A strange play to unearth now.

Paul Taylor, The Independent, 21st April 2017

London attack prompted The Philanthropist rewrite idea

The Oscar-winning writer of West End play The Philanthropist contemplated rewriting his 1970 comedy in the wake of last month's Westminster attack.

BBC, 21st April 2017

The Philanthropist review

The Philanthropist was written when Christopher Hampton was only 23 - and here gets a revival that for once casts actors in their late-twenties, early-thirties, as intended. But it's not revelatory: these academics act like old fogeys who sleep about a bit.

Holly Williams, What's On Stage, 21st April 2017

The Philanthropist review

The Philanthropist veers wildly between comedy, tragedy and tragi-comedy. The audience never knows where a pithy line, death, infidelity and betrayal will spring from next. It might be a comedy, but don't expect big laughs.

Frances Taylor, Radio Times, 21st April 2017

The Philanthropist, theatre review

TV stars look ill at ease in this woeful dud. This pricey West End play feels like a misconceived venture.

Henry Hitchins, Evening Standard, 21st April 2017

The Philanthropist review

I love the play, but I think the age of the actors matters far less than their depth of experience and understanding.

Michael Billington, The Guardian, 21st April 2017

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

Radio 4
11:30am
30 min
Gloomsbury. Image shows from L to R: Henry Mickleton (Jonathan Coy), Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Miriam Margolyes), DH Lollipop (John Sessions), Lionel Fox (Nigel Planer), Venus Traduces (Morwenna Banks), Ginny Fox (Alison Steadman). Copyright: Little Brother Productions

Gloomsbury

Series 4, Episode 3 - Honestly, Darling

Henry and Vera make a radio broadcast with Hilda on the need for honesty in marriage, but an open microphone reveals more to the listeners than a scripted conversation ever could.

BBC Radio Scotland
1:30pm
30 min
Breaking The News. Des Clarke. Copyright: BBC Studios

Breaking The News

Series 6, Episode 9

Rory Bremner, Elaine Malcolmson, Louise Welsh and Billy Kirkwood talk about Theresa May calling a snap general election. Plus Kim Jong Un vs Donald Trump: this time it's nuclear; Will a robot nick your job?; and are you prepared to complain your way to a wad of cash?

Radio 4
6:30pm
30 min
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 93, Episode 1

It's the first episode of Series 93 of The News Quiz and the whole country is talking about only one thing. And it's not the rise in the urban fox population in Bournemouth... although that does get a mention. With Jeremy Hardy, Helen Lewis, Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton.

Carters Get Rich. Trent Zebrisky (James Van Der Beek). Copyright: Roughcut Television

Carters Get Rich

Episode 4

The family faces a collision of worlds when billionaire Trent comes to stay, bringing a gaggle of attentive assistants.

Have I Got News For You. Patrick Stewart

Have I Got News For You

Series 53, Episode 1

Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are joined by guest host Patrick Stewart, Richard Osman and Camilla Long in a new series of the long-running topical news quiz.

Hospital People. Image shows from L to R: Sunny Prasad (Amit Shah), Susan Mitchell (Tom Binns). Copyright: Roughcut Television

Hospital People

Episode 1 - The Hospital Awards

Hospital Chaplain Father Kenny and resident Radio DJ Ivan vie for the Patients Choice Awards, while Ian is forced to face conventional medicine head on.

The Nightly Show. Dermot O'Leary

The Nightly Show

Episode 40

The final episode of the show. Dermot O'Leary is joined by comedy legend John Cleese and Texas lead singer Sharleen Spiteri.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC
10:35pm
45 min
The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Credit: So Television, Christopher Baines

The Graham Norton Show

Series 21, Episode 3 - Harry Styles, Brendan O'Carroll, Vicky McClure, Rob Brydon

Harry Styles in his frankest ever TV interview gives an exclusive and stunning performance of his new solo single, Brendan O'Carroll reveals that James Blunt is a lovely kisser, Vicky McClure says no character is safe in Line Of Duty, and Rob Brydon talks about his reluctance to take to the road.

My5
11pm
35 min
Comedy Bigmouths

Comedy Bigmouths

Episode 4 - Rory Bremner

Award-winning comedy star and current affairs expert Ian Stone is the host and MC, alongside fellow comedians such as Zoe Lyons, Geoff Norcott and Hal Cruttenden. The guest comedian is Rory Bremner.

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