BCG Daily Thursday 9th July 2020

Jessica Hynes: No one cares about me

As the dark new BBC comedy returns for series two, its star tells Fiona Sturges she feels lucky to still be getting acting jobs.

Hate law 'may criminalise comedy'

Changes to hate crime laws threaten to criminalise comedians who tell the classic "Scotsman, Irishman and Englishman go to a pub" joke, a leading QC has claimed. Roddy Dunlop, QC, vice-dean of the Faculty of Advocates, said plans to expand legislation to include "stirring up hatred" - as well as more protection for victims of prejudice on the basis of age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender - could impede free speech.

Love Sarah review

There are echoes of Fleabag and Richard Curtis in this tale of a mother's attempt to run a bakery that her late daughter was set to open.

Puffin to release collection of Terry Pratchett stories

Puffin is releasing a collection of early stories by Terry Pratchett which he penned during his career as a reporter. The Time-travelling Caveman brings together tales he wrote in the 1960s and 1970s for local papers the Bucks Free Press and the Western Daily Press.

Disability need not be a punchline

British television and British humour are two worlds that go hand in hand. British comedy television contains many representations of various groups, but disability often meets comedy at an intersection where disabled people sit at the butt of cheap jokes: from the severely sight impaired American cartoon character Mr Magoo to the use of mental health problems for comedic gain in Peep Show.

David Tennant: "Parenting is often sentimentalised"

As comedy-drama There She Goes returns for series two, the cast and creators explain why unvarnished honesty is central to its story of parenting a child with severe learning disabilities.

Love Sarah, review

A comedy so desperate to seem progressive that it ends up a Brexiteer.

Review: There She Goes

Couple's comedy is heartbreakingly honest about life with a disabled child.

Jack Whitehall: I'm a dirty secret

Even though he is an A-list comedian and has recently made his first Hollywood movie, Jack Whitehall reckons his posh school considers him its "dirty little secret".

He jokes that he has been erased from its history - unlike another very famous pupil who also attended ­Marlborough College.

QI gives us a glimpse at TV panel shows' strange future

Audience-free episodes of the hit trivia show filmed in March offer a hint at what to expect in the "new normal" - but would we be better off leaving the format behind for now?

Scottish actor and comedian Johnny Beattie dies aged 93

National treasure passed away peacefully at hospice.

There She Goes review

Sensitive parenting comedy with a spiky edge.

Netflix or Hill? The stand-ups streaming on NextUp

Bec Hill, Laura Davis and Eshaan Akbar can be watched on this online home for comedy's rising stars and circuit regulars

There She Goes series 2 review

It's not always an easy watch, but on its new home on BBC Two, There She Goes deserves to be seen.

There She Goes, series 2, episode 1, review

Finding hope, humour and joy in the bleakest situation.