BCG Daily Tuesday 12th March 2024

News

Features

BCG Pro

Press clippings

Dara O Briain

Josh Widdicombe & Dara O Briain to host new football mystery podcast

53 Minutes is a new podcast hosted by acclaimed comedians Josh Widdicombe and Dara Ó Briain, which will explore the exceptional circumstances that allowed a below average, amateur football player to hustle his way onto football's most elite stage - the Premier League.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2024
All Killa No Filla Live. Image shows left to right: Rachel Fairburn, Kiri Pritchard-McLean. Credit: Drew Forsyth

All Killa No Filla: Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Rachel Fairburn on hit podcast's 10th anniversary tour

For ten years, comedians Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Rachel Fairburn have explored their shared passion for true crime and serial killers on podcast All Killa No Filla.

Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 12th March 2024
The Starter For Ten musical's world premiere cast

Starter For Ten musical review

In a landscape often cluttered with musicals trying to emulate other modern successes, it is delightful to see a new musical carving its own visual and musical aesthetic in this 80s-themed extravaganza.

Sophie Tice, Broadway Baby, 12th March 2024
Marjolein Robertson

Marjolein Robertson on her soul-baring comedy breakthrough

Ahead of her appearances at this year's Glasgow Comedy Festival, stand-up Marjolein Robertson tells Jay Richardson how therapy informed her Fringe hit Marj, and how she hopes to show audiences 'a different side' of her native Shetland.

Jau Richardson, The Scotsman, 12th March 2024
The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man review

Manic gusto from Kenneth More's 60s-style Withnail.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 12th March 2024
Emmanuel Sonubi

Emmanuel Sonubi interview

Emmanuel Sonubi discusses his new comedy show Curriculum Vitae, tour, and dangerous jobs.

Nadia Abbas, Brighton Journal, 12th March 2024
Things You Should Have Done. Image shows left to right: Lucas (Jamie Bisping), Auntie Karen (Selin Hizli), Chi (Lucia Keskin)

Lucia Keskin: "It's my worst nightmare to be called an influencer"

She found fame online opening her GCSE results and ripping off Friends. Now the 23-year-old is shaking up sitcom with Things You Should Have Done, a pitch-black BBC show making fun of "horrible people, stupid people".

Coco Khan, The Guardian, 12th March 2024
This Country. Kerry Mucklowe (Daisy May Cooper). Copyright: BBC

Daisy May Cooper pregnant with third child

Daisy May Cooper is pregnant with her third child - a year after going public with her new boyfriend Ant.

The actress, who moved her new man into her home in the Cotswolds last year, is due to become a mum again in July of this year.

Fay Leyfield & Shan Ally, The Sun, 12th March 2024
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Secrets of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa revealed

The initial version of Alan Partridge film Alpha Papa was almost twice as long as the finished version and was 'the worst first cut' writer Neil ​Gibbons ever saw.

Neil Martin, Chortle, 12th March 2024
Rufus Hound

Rufus Hound reveals he's engaged

Rufus Hound has got engaged to his EastEnders actress girlfriend Sally Hodgkiss.

Daily Mail, 12th March 2024

TV & radio

BBC Three
9pm
50 min
Boarders. Jaheim (Josh Tedeku)

Boarders

Episode 4

Jaheim is home for the weekend but is confronted by the friend he betrayed. Leah ditches Mabel to get it on with Koku, and the truth about Toby's gummies lands him in trouble.

Perfect Pub Walks With Bill Bailey. Image shows left to right: Bill Bailey, Shaun Ryder

Perfect Pub Walks With Bill Bailey

Episode 4 - The High Life

Bill walks with music legend Shaun Ryder in Somerset, taking in the Avalon Marshes, Chew Valley and Ham Hill. While they wander, the pair discuss the ups and downs of Shaun's life, his return to performing and the impact of receiving an ADHD diagnosis, as Bill shows Shaun a different type of high to those from his rock and roll heyday.

Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable. Image shows left to right: Rylan Clark-Neal, Lucy Beaumont, Mel Giedroyc, Lou Sanders, Fatiha El-Ghorri

Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable

Series 4, Episode 1

Mel and her dishonourable assistant Lou Sanders are joined by Rylan Clark, Lucy Beaumont and Fatiha El-Ghorri. Lucy admits she nicked knickers in school, Fatiha reveals her secret cooking ingredient is sheep poo, and Rylan spills the beans on how he combined a pigeon meeting a sticky end and getting revenge on a colleague.

Share this page