BCG Daily Friday 9th October 2020

The Oral History of Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge is Middle England incarnate. From hapless sports presenter, to hapless TV presenter, to hapless podcaster, Norwich's favourite son is as maddening as he is endearing. He's also managed to do what very few characters in the comedy world successfully manage to do: endure.

Linehan won't work with C4 unless they show IT Crowd ep

Graham Linehan says that he won't work with Channel 4 again until they "reinstate" a transphobic episode of The IT Crowd. The Irish writer, who also created Father Ted and Black Books, wrote the season three episode "The Speech", which is currently unable to stream on Channel 4's website.

Interview: Daily Mash editor Tom Whiteley

'There's an incredible amount of fact-checking given we're technically making everything up'.

Comedians outdoors getting COVID-compliant: 3

Including several performanes from Rachel Fairburn.

Interview: Janey Godley

Janey Godley on her hit Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers and how they have been turned into a new book.

London Palladium to present pantomime this Christmas

Panto will be back at The London Palladium - oh yes it will!

A brace of stars who appeared in previous Palladium shows, such as Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot, Ashley Banjo and Diversity and Charlie Stemp will return this year for a special socially-distanced panto variety experience.

Nabil Abdulrashid accused of bullying and homophobia

Britain's Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid has been accused of being a "bully and a homophobe" by another contributor on the 2016 BBC show Muslims Like Us.

Angela Barnes interview

The award-winning stand-up on the things that make her laugh the most

The Watch brings Terry Pratchett's Discworld to TV

[Writer] Simon Allen talked about the band of improbable heroes at the centre of the story. "The City Watch ... are these kind of flawed but adorable band of magical misfits in a corrupt fantasy city that they're kind of loitering in the margins of when we meet them. The world that [Pratchett] wrote and that we base our show in is so kind of warped and upside-down and off its axis."