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BCG Daily Sunday 1st June 2025

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Goodnight Sweetheart. Image shows from L to R: Yvonne Sparrow (Emma Amos), Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Phoebe Sparrow (Elizabeth Carling). Copyright: Retort Shop

Goodnight Sweetheart story to continue via new novel

Comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are writing a final chapter in the Goodnight Sweetheart story. A Kickstarter campaign is underway to fund Many Happy Returns, a novel which will share storylines from the unmade seventh series of the hit TV comedy about a time travelling man.

Sean Patrick Live

Sean Patrick wins Not So New Comedian Of The Year 2025

Sean Patrick has won the Not So New Comedian Of The Year competition. Fred Ferenczi was the runner-up, with Jim Brown third.

Features

Max Wall Features

Comedy Chronicles - Setbacks & Fightbacks #1: The fall and rise of Max Wall

One of the last comedians to survive the variety stage and find success in the television age, Max Wall nevertheless suffered far more than his fair share of both personal and professional ups and downs across an extensive career.

Press clippings

The Ranganation. Romesh Ranganathan. Copyright: Zeppotron

Romesh Ranganathan opens up about mental health struggle

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the comedian described how he had used running, reading and breathing exercises to help centre himself, after previously having suicidal thoughts.

Annabel Rackham and Steven McIntosh, BBC, 1st June 2025
Phoebe Waller-Bridge

'I couldn't have brought first show to Edinburgh Fringe now', warns Baby Reindeer and Fleabag producer

When star Edinburgh Festival Fringe producer Francesca Moody brought her first theatre show, The Ducks, to Edinburgh in 2011, the full cost of the run was £10,000. "You just can't do that now, because that's what the accommodation is going to cost you on its own," says the Baby Reindeer and Fleabag producer. "I certainly would have struggled to take work for the first time up there now."

Jane Bradley, The Scotsman, 1st June 2025
The Ballad Of Wallis Island. Image shows left to right: Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden), Charles Heath (Tim Key), Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan)

The Ballad Of Wallis Island review

The healing power of the old songs.

Anthony Cecil, The Arts Desk, 1st June 2025
The Gentlemen. Image shows left to right: Eddie Horniman (Theo James), Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), Lady Sabrina (Joely Richardson), Jimmy Chang (Michael Vu), Geoff Seacombe (Vinnie Jones), Freddy Horniman (Daniel Ings). Credit: Netflix

Boxing star lands role in Guy Ritchie Netflix hit The Gentlemen

Champion boxer Chris Eubank Jr has landed a knockout role on the second series of Netflix hit, The Gentlemen.

Rod McPhee, The Sun, 1st June 2025
The Gentlemen. Image shows left to right: Eddie Horniman (Theo James), Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), Lady Sabrina (Joely Richardson), Jimmy Chang (Michael Vu), Geoff Seacombe (Vinnie Jones), Freddy Horniman (Daniel Ings). Credit: Netflix

Vinnie Jones wields bat on The Gentlemen set

Vinnie Jones means business as he knocks a thug clean off his electric bike while filming The Gentlemen's second series.

Mary Gallagher, The Sun, 1st June 2025
Stage door sign on a brick wall

This Is My Family review

Tim Firth's 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today's standards but the songs and sentimental ending will still melt your heart.

Arifa Akbar, The Guardian, 1st June 2025

TV & radio

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 8:15pm
45 min
Death Valley. Image shows left to right: Leah Jones (Lu Corfield), Steffan Richards (Dylan Malyn), Bronwen Richards (Mali Harries), Anne Treadway (Vicki Pepperdine), Yvonne Mallowan (Melanie Walters), Ryan (Lawrence Walker)

Death Valley

Episode 2

After a mysterious walker is found dead on a Welsh mountain trail, Janie ropes John into joining her mam Yvonne's walking group to investigate the unidentified woman.

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