BCG Daily Thursday 7th January 2021
News & Features
Comedians for Disability Equality
Comedians have taken centre-stage, when it comes to raising disability awareness.
Spamalot film to go into production
A film based on the musical Monty Python's Spamalot is to be made by Paramount Pictures. Eric Idle has created a complete movie script.
Gone Fishing website
An accompanying website for BBC Two's hit comedy-travelogue Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has been launched.
Videos
Every Single Scandinavian Crime Drama
Alasdair Beckett-King says: "I love Nordic Noir, and this is all of them."
Politically Correctly
Save yourself from typos and public shaming with this new writing tool especially designed for Liberal Arts students. This is the January winner of the BCG Pro Video Contest.
The Man With His Fingers In His Ears
Two journalists investigate a man who has decided to 'shut it all out'.
Podcasts
Stone Clearing With Richard Herring
Chapter 89: Chapter 89 - Frofti Graf. It's 8.05am on 7th January 2021 and it's the first recorded clear of a New Year, though the ftones laugh at the paffage of a...
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TV & Radio: Catch-Up
Scot Squad
Series 6, Episode 1: The Chief is keen to make amends for a slip of the tongue and keeps digging deeper as his extended apology lasts for ever. The traffic cops make a big noise to salute the key workers, while the rural officers handle a massive marrow bust-up at the horticultural show.
QI
Series R, Episode 13: Sandi Toksvig asks questions on animals beginning with the letter R, with Tom Allen, Ed Gamble, Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Alan Davies trying to come up with interesting answers - while avoiding the most obvious ones.
The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything
2021 Special: Quizmaster extraordinaire Jimmy Carr is joined by a panel of celebrity quizzers including Rob Beckett & Roisin Conaty, Nish Kumar & Katherine Ryan and Oti Mabuse & Rob Brydon as they go head to head to see who knows the most about, well, everything.
Danny & Mick
Series 3, Episode 4: Danny and Mick have to hide a dog in the leisure centre without Sharon seeing.
...At The Stand
Fred At The Stand 3, Episode 1: Performed in front of a virtual audience, Fred MacAulay is joined by Welsh over-sharer Priya Hall; the comedian best known for her fantasy marriage to Jurgen Klopp, Laura Lexx; more cracking observations and brilliant characterisations from Geordie Carl Hutchinson; and one of the country's most gifted natural comics, Seann Walsh.
Comedy Catalysts
Series 2, Episode 4: Multi award-winning comic Harriet Kemsley invites her peers to celebrate the trailblazing comedians who inspired them to pick up the mic. In this episode Shazia Mirza talks about her hero Richard Pryor.
Elephant In The Room
Series 2, Episode 1: Sarah Millican's hit panel show returns, using surveys to discover who is the most Average Jolene and who is the most Maverick Matilda. This week's sparkling panel features Susan Calman, Shazia Mirza, Kirsten O'Brien and Nick Mohammed.