BCG Daily Monday 17th February 2020
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Simon Evans, Blackheath Halls review
The comic's most personal show yet.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 17th February 2020Comedy skewers our immigration dilemma
A Channel 4 sitcom about a Syrian refugee in suburbia might sound worthy but it brilliantly pokes fun at our fears.
Libby Purves, The Times, 17th February 2020Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires
Steve Coogan's take on Philip Green is the latest in a long list of tycoons portrayed on screen, ranging from corrupt tax avoiders to smouldering heroes.
Steve Rose, The Guardian, 17th February 2020Interview - Improv Triple Decker, Five Chubby Foxes
This week why see one improv act when you can see three! In Nottingham this week, the Playhouse is hosting Miss Imps event Triple Decker featureing Denise's 50th, Five Chubby Foxes and The Improclaimers. To celebrate the event being show of the week we have not one, not two but three interviews going out across the day so you get to know more about the acts that are perfoming, starting with Five Chubby Foxes.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 17th February 2020TV: Inside No. 9 - Love's Great Adventure, BBC Two
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton don't make it easy for critics do they? Or maybe they do.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th February 2020This Country Series 3 review
Everything works in perfect concert to portray this deep, unspoken friendship between Kerry and Kurtan, enduring through some testing times.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020Interview: This Country's vicar Paul Chahidi
"I'm going to give Andrew Scott a run for his money as a sexy priest".
Rupert Hawksley, i Newspaper, 17th February 2020Inside No. 9: Love's Great Adventure review
Every episode of Inside No. 9 has a different style, and for "Love's Great Adventure", Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have gone full kitchen-sink drama.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020Inside the comedy podcast boom
A look at the podcast's role in the renaissance in creative audio comedy.
David Davies, PSN Europe, 17th February 2020This Country review
Like The Office at its best, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's Cotswolds-set mockumentary remains hilarious, potent and exquisite right to the end.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 17th February 2020This Country, BBC, review
Still the funniest show on television.
Rupert Hawksley, i Newspaper, 17th February 2020This Country, series 3 episode 1 review
A bittersweet return for the delightful sitcom.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020Inside No 9: Love's Great Adventure, review
A kitchen-sink drama that's up there with the series' finest episodes.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020Cold Feet, episode 6 review
This charismatic gang still feel like old friends - but it's a wise decision to bow out now.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020Interview: Improv Triple Decker, The Improclaimers
Let's talk to The Improclaimers.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 17th February 2020This Country series three review
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's hilarious mockumentary is as infinitely quotable as ever.
Flora Carr, Radio Times, 17th February 2020Review: This Country
BBC Three's sublime rural mockumentary This Country is back for what creators Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper have said is its final series. When we last saw the Mucklowe cousins (played by the Cooper siblings) just over a year ago in 'The Aftermath', Kerry was finally coming to terms with the selfishness of her dad, whom she had always idolised, while Kurtan was struggling to cope with losing his job at the bowls club.
Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 17th February 2020Review: Inside No. 9 delivers kitchen sink drama
Although Inside No. 9 has always experimented with different settings, formats and genres, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have said that they think this fifth series of their anthology show is the most varied one they've done so far.
Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 17th February 2020Olga Koch: If/Then review
While the show comes more from Koch's insight and logic than it does from her soul, there is nonetheless plenty of food for thought given a droll, amusing commentary.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020Oddball review
With Oddball, Francesca Forristal takes on the topic of eating disorders with the intention of 'exploring thought processes which don't always make sense from the outside'.
Chortle, 17th February 2020Privates: A Sperm Odyssey review
They're not exactly complex characters, but with lively, anarchic performances, knockabout chemistry and silly voices, there's a touch of The Goon Show to the whole proceedings.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Series 21, Special - UFO SpecialBrian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the 1st kind with comedian Lucy Beaumont, astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Director of Jodrell Bank Professor Tim O'Brien, and science presenter Dallas Campbell to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth?
Nature Table
Series 1, Episode 2Sue Perkins is joined by biologist Lizzie Daly, zoologist Billy Heaney and comedian Jessica Fostekew, with items discussed including angler fish and grey seals.
The Aberystwyth Stand-Up Show
Live From Aberystwyth Pier, Episode 1Recorded live from Aberystwyth Comedy Festival, Angelsey's Kiri Pritchard-McLean introduces Jonny and the Baptists, Sunil Patel and Eleanor Tiernan.
This Country
Series 3, Episode 1 - A Letter From SluggsThe film crew arrives back in the village to discover some very sad news about a popular local resident. Meanwhile, Kerry faces some financial difficulties, so Kurtan steps in to help support her.
Cold Feet
Series 9, Episode 6Adam and Karen's future is thrown into jeopardy by an unexpected offer, and David is in turmoil over his growing feelings for Robyn. While Jenny braces herself for her first mammogram after her treatment for cancer, Pete helps their son Adam realise his dream.
Roast Battle
Series 4, Episode 5Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens battles it out against popular comedian Dane Baptiste. There's a fight that doesn't stay behind closed doors as Luke McQueen goes up against his landlady, housemate, and best friend Lou Sanders. The guest judge this week is Sara Pascoe.
Inside No. 9
Series 5, Episode 3 - Love's Great AdventureTrevor and Julia always want to make Christmas really special for their family but this year, with money so tight, things aren't going to be easy. As each door of the advent calendar opens, everyone will have to do their bit to make Christmas happen.
Top Of The Bill
Episode 1 - Adrian Edmondson on The Pursuit of LaughterIn his essay Adrian Edmondson describes his pursuit of a certain type of laugh, a desperate, untamed, visceral laugh, and in doing so remembers one of the acts from those early days of the Comedy Store.