BCG Daily Sunday 3rd January 2021

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Press clippings

Sara Pascoe on her greatest achievement

Sara Pascoe is a talented English writer, comedian and actress who has appeared on several panel TV shows. However, there's more to her than meets the eye - we sit down with the best-selling author to find out more.

Molly Reynolds, The Sun, 3rd January 2021

The Lenny Henry Birthday Show. Lenny Henry

Lenny Henry: Television is too white.

The actor says streaming services such as Netflix are better than terrestrial channels at representing Britain's ethnic diversity.

Dipesh Gadher, The Sunday Times, 3rd January 2021

Peter Kay delights fans with rare radio interview

Peter Kay fans were treated to a rare media appearance from the comic on Saturday morning (2 January), as he joined Cat Deeley for a chat on BBC Radio 2.

Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 3rd January 2021

Mrs. Brown's Boys. Image shows from L to R: Buster Brady (Danny O'Carroll), Grandad Brown (Dermot O'Neill), Dino Doyle (Gary Hollywood), Rory Brown (Rory Cowan), Cathy Brown (Jennifer Gibney), Mark Brown (Pat Shields), Betty Brown (Amanda Woods), Winnie McGoogan (Eilish O'Carroll), Dermot Brown (Paddy Houlihan), Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll), Maria Nicholson / Brown (Fiona O'Carroll). Copyright: BBC / BocPix

Mrs Brown's Boys New Year Special review

Old bromides and stock set-ups dominated Mrs. Brown's Boys: New Year Special, another plodding seasonal edition of Brendan O'Carroll's doggedly predictable panto about the Finglas matriarch and her finagling clan. "Special" is precisely what it wasn't.

Liam Fay, The Times, 3rd January 2021

Limmy's Brexit song is the only thing that makes sense

The comedian has torn the Brexit mindset to shreds over the past four years, with his regular pronouncements - "Yous having a nice Brexit, aye?" - becoming a running joke with followers. This new song samples a call to LBC host James O'Brien, in which a hardcore Brexiteer sees the light and completely changes their mind.

Robin Murray, Clash Music, 3rd January 2021

Only Fools And Horses. Image shows from L to R: Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Del (David Jason), Grandad (Lennard Pearce). Copyright: BBC

David Jason: playing Del Boy helped him grieve

The natiional treasure has opened up about how filming the Only Fools And Horses specials in the mid-90s gave him a focus after the death of his partner, Myfanwy Talog.

James Desborough, The Mirror, 3rd January 2021

Ricky Gervais fears he will get 'cancelled' in 10 years

Ricky Gervais has promised he will continue to perform stand-up from a park bench in the event he is cancelled by the younger generation in the future.

Ailbhe MacMahon & Paul Robins, Daily Star, 3rd January 2021

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: TV review

With its nonstop spectacle and movement, the show offers too much to look at and too much happening for the viewer to ever get fully bored.

Inkoo Kang, Hollywood Reporter, 3rd January 2021

Review: The Watch is a a colourful, energetic treat

It's colourful and energetic and amusing, and full of interesting throwaway ideas (an alarm system that forces brawlers to become dancers; film as a series of paintings in the absence of photography) and gets you quickly interested in the fate of its broken characters, some of whom may also be on a road to love: what the Discworld, and our round one, needs now.

Robert Lloyd, LA Times, 3rd January 2021

The Watch Episodes 1 and 2 review

If viewers can embrace the frenetic pacing and mixed-era visuals, there's a lot to love here.

Alana Joli Abbott, Den Of Geek, 3rd January 2021

Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Nicholas Parsons left family and pals £25,000 for party

Nicholas Parsons left family and pals £25,000 for a huge knees-up. The comedian, who died aged 96 last January, told them: "It should celebrate happy memories, not be a sad farewell." He left £1million to second wife Annie, 81, and his children from his first marriage, Suzy, 62, and Justin, 60.

Tom Wells, The Sun, 3rd January 2021