BCG Daily Sunday 23rd December 2018
Press clippings
Jim Davidson is accused of a hate crime
Jim Davidson is accused of a hate crime after telling Serbian sister-in-law of Tory MP a joke about novichok in top Conservative club.
Glen Owen, Mail on Sunday, 23rd December 2018Hold the Sunset Christmas special, review
It is as if the writer put down his pen midway through crafting an hour-long special and shoved in a heart-warming Christmas singalong to end things.
Alexandra Pollard, The Independent, 23rd December 2018King Gary, BBC1, review
In a weekend dominated by talking bunnies on BBC1, King Gary was a (slightly) more realistic sitcom pilot from Tom Davis and James De Frond, two of the team behind BBC3's addictively silly Murder In Successville.
Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 23rd December 2018King Gary, review: a soufflé-light suburban sitcom
Here we are smack bang in the most wonderful time of year. Your family and dearest friends all together in one room, huddled round to pick through the delights of Christmas TV. One of the first offerings from the festive schedule was the entirely unfestive comedy pilot King Gary (BBC One), a soufflé-light sitcom following married couple Gary and Terri King (Tom Davis and Laura Checkley) as they try to fit in with their middle-class neighbours.
Helen Chandler-Wilde, The Telegraph, 23rd December 2018Tim McInnerny: Blackadder is dead
Captain Darling believes any cunning plan to bring back the much-loved sitcom would flop because the cast are too old.
David Stephenson, The Daily Express, 23rd December 2018In bed with Queen Anne? Fact-checking The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos's new film, The Favourite, is unafraid to go a good way beyond known facts, yet the history behind the fiction is almost as surprising.
Ophelia Field, The Telegraph, 23rd December 2018Videos
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6:20pm30 min
Hold The Sunset
Christmas Special - If I Were A Wise ManIt's the last Christmas Edith will have with her family before she and Phil set off for their dream retirement in the Mediterranean. Edith's son Roger enlists her scurrilous one-time flame, Bob 'the burglar', to give Christmas its proper flavour; Edith's sister Joan won't watch the Queen's Speech anywhere else; Queenie locks Sandra and Wendy into a wardrobe; and Phil finds himself talking to a ghost.
6:50pm30 min
Still Open All Hours
Series 5, Christmas SpecialIt is Christmas, and Granville has a large consignment of mistletoe mince pies to shift, but how can he persuade his regulars to buy them?
7:15pm30 min
The Shuttleworths
2018 Christmas Special - Visiting TimeJohn Shuttleworth has to combine his Christmas Broadcast with a visit to the local hospital, as his friend Alan the Opera Singer is in for tests.
8pm
Funny Girl: The Musical
A recording of Sheridan Smith starring in the stage musical.
9pm30 min
Have I Got News For You
Series 56, Highlights Special - Have I Got 2018 News For YouTeam captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are joined by a variety of guest hosts and panellists from the worlds of comedy, journalism and current affairs for a compilation that looks back at the big news of 2018.
9pm60 min
Trollied
Christmas Special - The WeddingFinally it's the weekend of Gavin Strong and Cheryl Fairweather's wedding. Arriving at a beautiful country house hotel and surrounded by their friends and beloved Valco family, the couple couldn't be happier. However come the morning of the wedding Gavin is nowhere to be seen. A few drinks in the local pub with the stag party clearly took a very messy turn and as Cheryl panics that Gavin's got cold feet, it's a race against the clock to get Gavin back from Dublin and to the wedding on time.
9pm60 min
8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Series 15 (C4: 16), Christmas SpecialSean Lock and Kathy Burke team up against Jon Richardson and David Mitchell. James Acaster joins Countdown's resident lexicographer Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner, while maths whizz Rachel Riley and comedian Joe Wilkinson are in charge of the numbers.
9pm3 min
Dave's Advent Calendar
Episode 23 - På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrød - A Genuine Danish Christmas Song From Sofie HagenSofie Hagen sings the famous Danish classic Christmas song "På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrød".
9pm60 min
Christmas Musical Comedy Chart
A one-off show counting down some of the best festive comedy songs.
9:30pm30 min
King Gary
Episode 1 - PilotGary King's world is thrown into utter turmoil when he discovers that a neighbour is having a rival barbecue on the same day as his first barbecue of the year.
9:30pm30 min
The Secret Story Of The BBC Christmas Tapes
For years, the BBC's production teams would compile video tapes of bloopers, out-takes and curious from the past year's shows, for their own internal enjoyment at Christmas. This is their remarkable story.
11:15pm30 min
The Young Offenders
Christmas SpecialIt's Christmas week, and the residents of the estate where Conor, Jock and Mairead live have been fighting off an eviction from the council for over a month.
2am90 min
The Queen And I
Comedy about the abolition of the Monarchy and the Royal Family moving to the Midlands.