BCG Daily Wednesday 23rd February 2022

Review: This Is Going To Hurt hooks you in from the start

Most of us work to live, but junior doctor Adam lives to work.

Stars hit back at trolling against Kemah Bob on House Of Games

This week's programmes are special "Champion of Champions" edition featuring Angela Barnes, Kemah Bob, Beattie Edmondson and Ade Edmondson, but when the first show was broadcast Bob, who is a comedian from Houston, Texas, received negative criticism on Twitter about her voice. Some tweets also suggested she had interrupted others.

Steve Best publishes book of classic comedy shots

Photographer Steve Best is to publish a brand new book featuring unseen candid pictures of some of the comedy circuit's greatest performers.

Still Gin launches in time for Mother's Day

After the hugely successful launch of Jack & Victor whisky last year, Scottish comedy icons Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are expanding their offering with a brand-new tipple.

Emily Atack and Laura Whitmore booze backstage at Celeb Juice

Emily Atack boozed backstage after returning to filming Celebrity Juice with Laura Whitmore.

The 32-year-old showed the pair "work hard and play hard" as they celebrated finishing the first episode.

New tour for Babatunde Aleshe

The Babahood Tour will begin on 30th September in Reading and end on 18th November at Birmingham Glee.

Mo Gilligan: There's Mo To Life review

While Gilligan is undeniably a slick, assured entertainer, more than enough honesty and likeable humility shines through.

The Duke review

Roger Michell's final feature retells story of the cussed Newcastle pensioner who stole a Goya portrait in protest at government spending priorities.

After Life star teases spin-off series about show 'power couple'

A couple who emerged at the end of the series as one of the show's most popular duos was June and Lenny. Jo Hartley - who portrays June - later teased that the cast could "definitely do more" with the sitcom in the future.

The Duke review

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren excel in charming art-theft comedy.

Lucy Porter to make cameo in EastEnders

Lucy will appear as newcomer Rita who soon hits it off with Walford taxi driver Mitch Baker.

Anna Karen obituary

Actor best known for playing the put-upon wife, Olive, in the 1970s sitcom On The Buses and its three spin-off feature films.

This Is Going To Hurt is important viewing - but I won't be watching

I'm glad the series has started a national conversation about the plight of maternity services and about the sometimes strained relationship between midwifery care and obstetric doctors.

Billy Connolly: Night I hit a photographer and The Herald caught me

The picture comes from the archives of The Herald and shows Connolly grabbing photographer Stuart Bell outside The Drury Lane Theatre in London on September 1981. "I've battered a few of them [photographers]," says Connolly. "I was in the middle of a divorce and my children and wife were in Scotland and I was with Pam in London. It was impossible to stay sane being chased by the paparazzi so I lashed out."

The Queen's favourite TV show is The Kumars At No. 42

[I asked] “What’s your favourite programme?” Straightaway, she said, “The Kumars At No. 42” and, even more astonishingly, proceeded to recite some of the one-liners from the grandma character, played by the brilliant Meera Syal.