BCG Daily Sunday 10th December 2017

Features

Press clippings

Paddington 2: The challenges of making the film

Framestore's animation director, Pablo Grillo, tells BBC Click about how they made the visual effects featured in Paddington 2.

BBC, 10th December 2017

The best comedy is written in turbulent times

If, in 2017, you needed respite from our dire economic prospects, the whims of Donald Trump or the Damoclean sword of North Korea, you could find it on British television. Three of the year's best new shows - Pls Like, This Country and Back - were welcome proof that reports of the death of the sitcom have been greatly exaggerated.

Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 10th December 2017

Euan Ferguson's best television of 2017

Includes Motherland, Car Share and W1A, while flops include The Nightly Show.

Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 10th December 2017

Adam Kay interview

'If I had kids I would put them off studying medicine'. The comedian's memoir about his gruelling years as a junior doctor has fired up public indignation over the NHS's future. Even Jeremy Hunt has heard about it...

Andrew Anthony, The Observer, 10th December 2017

Daliso Chaponda interview

He discusses being on BGT, his upcoming 2018 tour (What the African Said) and which performers he watches at home.

Telly Binge, 10th December 2017

Shappi Khorsandi talks about her time on I'm A Celeb

"I went into the jungle for I'm A Celebrity and learnt some uncomfortable truths about myself."

Shappi Khorsandi, The Independent, 10th December 2017

Sarah Millican interview

Not a lot of people know this but I'm very good at... making a clown horn noise with my mouth.

The Daily Express, 10th December 2017

Al Murray on his first panto

"I'm lucky that my first panto I'm working with one of the absolute great dames in Clive Rowe because there is lots to learn."

Chortle, 10th December 2017

Romesh Ranganathan's Xmas survival guide for vegans

Vegans have an unfair reputation as difficult guests, especially at Christmas. So here are my tips on what to say, what to serve - and why you probably need to pack your own pudding.

Romesh Ranganathan, The Guardian, 10th December 2017

The Celebrity Voicemail Show review

It may be a grand idea for radio, and a good showcase for Novak's versatile vocal talents, but it's rather arbitrary for telly.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th December 2017

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

Radio 4
7:15pm
30 min
Jeeves Live!. Martin Jarvis. Copyright: Jarvis and Ayres Productions

Jeeves Live!

Series 3, Episode 1 - The Aunt and the Sluggard

While living in New York, Bertie has to persuade his brainy manservant Jeeves to concoct a spiffing plan, so that his poet pal Rocky can continue receiving a financial allowance from a rich aunt. The trouble is the aunt wants Rocky to have a good time visiting the fleshpots of Manhattan and to write her letters about it. But Rocky prefers to live as a recluse on Long Island, miles away. How on earth can it be done? Can Jeeves find a solution?

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