BCG Daily Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Starstruck review
Though it is sometimes too ready to stoop for cheap laughs, Starstruck will leave you yearning to know if Tom and Jessie get back together.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 27th April 2021Richard Osman leads fiction surge in book sales high
TV presenter and author leads a 16% lockdown fiction sales surge, Publishers Association figures show. David Walliams also appears in the top twice.
Adm Sherwin, i Newspaper, 27th April 2021Dreaming Whilst Black: from web to BBC1
Our Comedy Slice adaptation of Adjani Salmon's online hit shows people of colour given senior positions create brilliant programmes, says Gina Lyons.
Gina Lyons, Broadcast, 27th April 2021Mastermind champion wins with Flanders & Swann
Jonathan Gibson, 24, from Glasgow, became the youngest ever champion, winning by a margin of four points in the Grand Final after answering all 11 questions correctly in his specialist subject, the musical comeyd duo Flanders & Swann.
Colan Lamont, The Sun, 27th April 2021To box tick or not to box tick?
To box tick or not to box tick? That is the question! At least the question I've been asking myself, and others, a lot of late.
Scarlett Kefford, Funny Women, 27th April 2021Why Charlie Higson was drawn to animation
When Plymouth College of Art ran a competition for members of the public to make a 60-second film about horror icon Boris Karloff, they probably didn't expect the creator of a Bafta-winning comedy show to enter.
Chortle, 27th April 20212-metre social distancing imposed on Scottish theatres
Scotland's arenas, concert halls and comedy clubs will be forced to impose two metre social distancing if they want to reopen - despite warnings that the vast majority of events will be totally unviable.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 27th April 2021The other key to sitcom success
There will be sitcoms that fail for whatever reason. On the Sitcom Geeks podcast, we enjoy talking about them, partly because failure is funny. But also examining failure is often more informative than the successful show where success seems inevitable. (It wasn't).
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 27th April 2021Tommy Tiernan company saw record profits before Covid
New accounts for Tiernan's Mabinog Ltd show that it enjoyed a bumper year in 2019 before the pandemic last year decimated the Co Meath's man's stand-up income revenues, which was the mainstay of his business.
Gordon Deegan, The Independent (Ireland), 27th April 2021How Alan Partridge stayed funny for 30 years
Jurassic Park! Alan Partridge returns to our screens this week, three decades since he was first created.
Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard, 27th April 2021Matafeo: ban male comics from doing #MeToo material
"I'm sick of seeing sensitive men being like, 'What can we do? What can we DO? Apart from write an hour show about it... what can we DO?'"
Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard, 27th April 2021Simon Blackwell talks about Breeders Series 3
Breeders writer Simon Blackwell has revealed that work is underway on Season 3 of FX and Sky's parenthood comedy - and a physical writers room has been set up for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe.
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27th April 2021Boys From County Hell review
Bram Stoker was Irish, and this Shudder horror comedy from director Chris Baugh delights in reinventing Dracula with a brogue.
Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27th April 2021Videos
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The Flatshare
Episode 7Tiffy and Leon dine by candlelight in The Bunny Hop Inn in Brighton after Tiffy has injured her ankle. It looks like they might both just have to stay the night there...
TV Flashback
Series 4, Episode 12 - Community SpiritThis time Tudur's celebrating our community spirit. It's a journey into a world of jalopy racing, bucking broncos and local heroes, full of lively characters from the nation's TV past.
Guessable?
Series 2, Episode 3The gang welcome TV presenter Alex Jones, comedians Kerry Godliman and Lou Sanders, and football pundit royalty Chris Kamara into the loft.
Fortunately... With Fi And Jane
Series 1, Episode 16 - Multiple Jugs And Victorian Sausage-Makers, With Rosie JonesJane and Fi talk to Rosie Jones. Rosie tells them about her new travel series Trip Hazard, as well as discussing her life in lockdown with her parents and whether or not she'll be buying a hotel in Bognor.