BCG Daily Friday 9th October 2020

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I'm Alan Partridge. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Talkback Productions

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.

Daniel Dylan Wray, Vice.com, 9th October 2020
The IT Crowd. Image shows from L to R: Moss (Richard Ayoade), Jen (Katherine Parkinson), Roy (Chris O'Dowd). Copyright: TalkbackThames

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.

Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 9th October 2020
The Daily Mash

Interview: Daily Mash editor Tom Whiteley

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

Charlotte Tobitt, The Press Gazette, 9th October 2020
Rachel Fairburn

Comedians outdoors getting COVID-compliant: 3

Including several performanes from Rachel Fairburn.

Funny Women, 9th October 2020
Janey Godley

Interview: Janey Godley

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

Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 9th October 2020
Theatre Stage Door

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.

Alex Wood, What's On Stage, 9th October 2020
Nabil Abdulrashid

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.

Peter Dyke, Daily Star, 9th October 2020
Angela Barnes

Angela Barnes interview

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

The Guardian, 9th October 2020
The Watch. Image shows from L to R: Constable Cheery (Jo Eaton-Kent), Corporal Angua (Marama Corlett), Lady Sybil Ramkin (Lara Rossi), Sam Vimes (Richard Dormer), Sergeant Detritus, Constable Carrot (Adam Hugill)

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."

IGN Movies, 9th October 2020

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

YouTube
9am
26 min
No More Jockeys. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Alex Horne, Tim Key

No More Jockeys

Set 2, Episode 3 - Set 2, Game 3

With Mark having won the first two games of the second set, Tim and Alex need to step up their game. Expect to come across figures from Greek myth, animation and bears.

Radio 4
11:30am
30 min
Richard Wilson

Believe It!

Series 5, Episode 3 - Grumpy Old Menopause

Richard Wilson finds himself getting grumpier and grumpier with age. What to do about it? He enlists help from someone even grumpier than him - Alexei Sayle.

Radio 4
6:30pm
30 min
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 103, Episode 6

Andy Zaltzman hosts the satirical quiz in front of a virtual audience, with guests Mark Steel, Lloyd Langford, Helen Lewis and Felicity Ward.

Have I Got News For You. Adil Ray

Have I Got News For You

Series 60, Episode 2

Actor and presenter Adil Ray hosts the satirical quiz, inviting comedian and writer Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Conservative Baroness Nicky Morgan to join regular team leaders Ian Hislop and Paul Merton as they poke fun at the week's events.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC
10:45pm
45 min
The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Credit: So Television, Christopher Baines

The Graham Norton Show

Series 28, Episode 2 - Ewan McGregor, Shirley Ballas, Ashley Banjo, Frank Skinner, Miley Cyrus

Ewan McGregor talks about his friendship with Charlie Boorman, Shirley Ballas says writing her book was difficult, Ashley Banjo says being a judge on BGT is a crazy full-circle moment, Frank Skinner talks poetry, and Miley Cyrus introduces a very special performance.

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