BCG Daily Monday 15th February 2021
News & Features
Patrick Kielty records Radio 4 stand-up show
Patrick Kielty is the latest comic to land a Radio 4 special. In Borderline: A Postcard From The Edge Of The Union he pledges to explain what's really happening in a post-Brexit Northern Ireland.
BBC to broadcast The Festival Of Funny
The BBC has announced The Festival Of Funny. Running across its TV, radio and online channels from late February to mid-March, the festival will see fourteen hours of new content broadcast.
Comedy writer Iain Pattinson has died
Iain Pattinson, who has written countless jokes for shows including I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, has died.
Matt Lucas to celebrate Mr Men
Matt Lucas is to front 50 Years Of The Mr Men, a Channel 4 show which celebrates the characters created by Roger Hargreaves.
UKTV and Comedy 50:50 opportunity
Comedy 50:50 and UKTV have launched an initiative to generate at least one new sitcom series for either Gold or Dave.
Alan Carr's new sitcom
Alan Carr is making a semi-autobiographical sitcom about his life growing up in Northampton in the 1980s.
Podcasts
The Worst Writer in the World
Worst Writer - Stars, Part 1: 14-year-old Howard's fantasy story about a band of heroic adventurers on a quest to save the world (from jelly).
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TV & Radio: Catch-Up
The Stand Up Sketch Show
Series 3, Episode 2: Routines by comedians including Huge Davies, Judi Love, Alfie Brown, Bobby Mair, Suzi Ruffell, Iain Stirling and Russell Kane are reconstructed as sketches.
Would I Lie To You?
Series 14, Episode 7: Host Rob Brydon and captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack welcome Joel Dommett, Sindhu Vee, Alex Horne and AJ Odudu to the comedy panel show on which the teams reveal extraordinary stories about themselves.
The Unbelievable Truth
Series 25, Episode 6: David Mitchell hosts three comedy couples: Sarah Millican and Gary Delaney, Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris, and Lucy Porter and Justin Edwards, as they talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as nudity, horses and Valentine's Day.
Foiled
Series 4, Episode 4: Sabrina's dad treats the team to an unexpected day out. But their excitement wanes when they realise they are going to spend the day in a karaoke booth.
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Prof. Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Ross Noble, paleontologist Susie Maidment and geologist Chris Jackson to look at the history of rock.