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BCG Daily Sunday 28th October 2018

Press clippings

Seann Walsh voted off Strictly after kiss controversy

Seann Walsh, who was photographed kissing his dance partner Katya Jones outside a pub, has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.

BBC, 28th October 2018

Live review: Mark Thomas: Check Up - Our NHS @ 70

Comedy, if not the NHS, is in safe hands.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th October 2018

Inside No 9 Live, review

A prank pulled off with aplomb, this was a televisual trick and treat.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 28th October 2018

Jordan Brookes: Bleed, Soho Theatre, review

Well worth a look, if your stomach's up to it.

Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 28th October 2018

Paul Foot: Image Conscious - The Lowry, Salford

Image Conscious is a new show that, as it tours, may make the leap to surreal hilarity but at the moment is not funny enough.

Jay Nuttall, The Reviews Hub, 28th October 2018

How will Inside No 9's live Halloween episode work?

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith discuss the scariest TV project they've ever worked on...

Sam Peters, Radio Times, 28th October 2018

Steen Raskopoulos interview

My dad's the best. He didn't care what we did as long as we were happy.

Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 28th October 2018

Pickle Jar review

As a gentle comedy about a meek teacher trying to inspire unruly schoolgirls Pickle Jar works very well, but as a tale about sexual violence Pickle Jar needs a little more finesse.

Richard Maguire, The Reviews Hub, 28th October 2018

Sex and dating: what do men really find attractive?

Do men really love a bitch? Do they find smart women intimidating? Performance artist Millicent Binks takes dating advice to the extreme and road-tests five alter egos.

The Times, 28th October 2018

TV & radio

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11am
60 min
GrownUpLand. Copyright: BBC

GrownUpLand

Episode 3

A compilation of the BBC Radio 4 podcast where the panel consider what it really takes to be a grown up and how will you know when you are one?

CBeebies logo. Credit: BBC 5:05pm
15 min
Gigglebiz. Justin Fletcher. Copyright: BBC

Gigglebiz

Series 5, Episode 1 - Enrico's Duck Dance

Keith Fitt attempts to break a hook-a-duck world record, Gail Force hosts a new chat show, and Dina Lady tries to deliver a birthday cake.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Big Broadcast. Copyright: BBC

Big Broadcast

Series 2, Episode 2 - Location

It's 1933 and Chicago Beefsteak's Hour of Charm is the most successful on Midwest US radio.... and today the studio team use new technology to entice a Hollywood superstar to sing on the show.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 8:30pm
30 min
Still Open All Hours. Image shows from L to R: Mr Teasdale (Justin Edwards), Granville (David Jason). Copyright: BBC

Still Open All Hours

Series 5, Episode 4

Granville decides that he needs to increase his advertising footprint, but then his grand scheme, in the shape of an oversized balloon, wreaks havoc.

BBC Two 10pm
30 min
Inside No. 9. Image shows from L to R: Rev. Neil (Reece Shearsmith), Arthur Flitwick (Steve Pemberton). Copyright: BBC

Inside No. 9

Inside No. 9 Live, Special - Dead Line

When Arthur finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard, he makes the mistake of trying to contact the owner. But some mysteries are best left unsolved, and as Halloween draws near Arthur is plunged into a nightmare of his own making. It seems that no good deed can go unpunished, in this world or the next.

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