BCG Features
Romesh Ranganathan interview
Sunday 10th May 2020
Romesh Ranganathan is back for a second series of his BBC Two show, The Ranganathan. However, due to the coronavirus lockdown, things are slightly different this time...
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan interview
Monday 4th May 2020
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are taking on more challenges for their Sky series. This time they're having a go at ballet, basketball and cricket. However, along the way they also had a colonic irrigation, as they explain...
A League Of Their Own interviews
Monday 12th August 2019
Freddie Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and Romesh Ranganathan talk about the new 14th series of A League Of Their Own.
Romesh Ranganathan interview
Tuesday 14th May 2019
Romesh Ranganathan talks about his new topical comedy show, on BBC Two on Sunday nights. He jokes that his mum would step over his own dead body to get a TV cookery show.
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan interview
Friday 25th January 2019
Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett have been friends for 10 years. Now they're travelling the world together to meet a host of international superstars. In this interview they talk about dodgy prawns, the terror of singing, and embarrassing themselves.
Reluctant Landlord interviews
Monday 29th October 2018
Romesh Ranganathan introduces his new sitcom; plus we hear from co-stars Sian Gibson and Nick Helm.
Romesh Ranganathan's book
Thursday 28th April 2016
Romesh Ranganathan has announced that he is to write his memoirs for a new book.
Romesh Ranganathan interview
Wednesday 20th August 2014
Angry and candid onstage, affable and candid off it, ex-teacher Romesh Ranganathan really lets rip in his new Edinburgh show. Here we talk curriculums, closing schools and some handy comedy-writing advice.
Stand Up For The Week interviews
Thursday 31st October 2013
Angela Barnes, Simon Evans and Romesh Ranganathan have joined the line-up for Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week. We talk to them about preparing for the show, and whether there's any topic that's off limits.
Romesh Ranganathan wins Leicester 2013 stand-up contest
Sunday 24th February 2013
Stand-up comedian Romesh Ranganathan has been named the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2013.
Press Clippings
Staged review:
Review: Staged helps us through another lockdown
Was a second series of Staged needed? I think so.
Erin Zammitt, The Custard TV, 5th January 2021Staged review:
Review: Staged
Back in mid-December when the launch date for the second series of Staged was announced I jokingly tweeted: "So clever of BBC to schedule it to coincide with new lockdown". Little did I know how accurate that tweet would be.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th January 2021Staged review:
Staged Series 2 review
David Tennant and Michael Sheen return laden with celebrity cameos.
Barbara Speed, i Newspaper, 4th January 2021Opinion: the comedy week I will never forget
2020 might be a year we want to forget, but there is one week that I will never forget. Maybe it was a premonition and like a squirrel storing up nuts I wanted to get some comedy in the bank, but the week before Covid-19 really hit the UK I saw many more live shows than I usually see in a week in London.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st January 2021King Gary review:
King Gary Christmas Special, review
This sitcom has some strong lines and an endearing cast, but it courted some unenviable comparisons.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 23rd December 2020A League Of Their Own announces UK Road Trip
Sky panel show A League Of Their Own will travel from Loch Ness to London for its next special Road Trip series, which is now filming.
British Comedy Guide, 1st December 2020King Gary news:
King Gary Christmas special confirmed
BBC One has confirmed that King Gary will return for a Christmas special this December, ahead of a second series in 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 24th November 2020Romesh Ranganathan: painful past made me the comic I am
Speaking on the Changes With Annie Macmanus podcast, the stand-up said his life 'kind of got turned upside down' when he was at secondary school after his family home was repossessed, his parents' relationship was thrown into turmoil, and his father was sent to prison.
Tom Horton, Metro, 16th September 2020