BCG Daily Saturday 16th December 2017
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Press clippings
The League of Gentlemen preview
After 15 years away from our screens, The League of Gentlemen is back and this week I was incredibly lucky to be invited to a special BFI preview screening where I was one of the first to watch two out of the three new episodes.
I Talk Telly, 16th December 2017
Variety is Back and it's Slightly Fat...
"It is a marketing nightmare," Slightly Fat Features originator Goronwy Thomas aka Goronwy Thom told me.
John Fleming's Blog, 16th December 2017Preview: The League Of Gentlemen, Episode 1, BBC2
he result is a clever blend of mainly familiar and briefly unfamiliar, which makes you feel as if the programme has never been away. Maybe it has evolved but not very far. "The world's moved on," we are told at one point. Not that much for Royston Vasey though. In a Good Way.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th December 2017June Whitfield says she loves living in a care home
Dame June, 92, was widowed 16 years ago - and she revealed she finds it fun to be sharing her space with other pals.
Halina Watts, The Mirror, 16th December 2017BBC lets AI film comedy and music shows
It has emerged that the BBC has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to make a number of comedy panel and discussion shows staged at this year's Edinburgh Festival.
Patrick Sawer, The Telegraph, 16th December 2017Videos
TV
TV
TV & radio
11am60 min
Fighting Talk
Series 15, Episode 17Former GB and England Hockey player Kate Richardson-Walsh, Sports Editor of the Independent Ed Malyon, Canadian sports broadcaster Greg Brady and comedian Clive Anderson join Colin Murray for an hour of sporting punditry.
9pm60 min
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Series 3, Episode 5Miranda Hart bravely gives Michael her phone in Celebrity Send to All, and there is music from Niall Horan and new comedy material from Michael himself. And whose bedroom will Michael be sneaking into in the return of The Midnight Game Show? An A&E doctor is fooled into thinking the theatre is actually a grand hotel in the most ambitious Unexpected Star surprise ever.
10:25pm30 min
Sam Delaney's News Thing
Episode 48 - Star Wars, Cheggers, And A Bit Of PoliticsSam pays tribute to the awesome nature of humanity as embodied in Keith Chegwin, Star Wars, David Davies (yep the Brexit secretary), and our special guest, UKIP's Head of Calypso, Mike Read. With Vanessa Feltz, Laura Lexx and Marlon Davis.