British Comedy Guide
Encyclopedia
The British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British
website
covering all forms of British comedy
, across all media
. At the time of writing, the BCG has published guides to more than 1,200 individual British comedies - primarily TV and radio situation comedy
, sketch shows, comedy dramas, satire
, variety
and panel game
s. Other notable features on the BCG include a news section, a message board, interviews with comedians and actors, a series of comment and opinion articles, a searchable merchandise database, and a section offering advice to aspiring comedy writers. The website also runs The Comedy.co.uk Awards and hosts several podcast
series including The Collings and Herrin Podcasts
and As It Occurs To Me
, the later of which was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award
in 2010.
Reportedly, The British Comedy Guide attracts over 500,000 unique visitors a month, making it Britain's most-visited comedy-related reference website.
The website was founded in August 2003 as the British Sitcom Guide (BSG), a website devoted to British situation comedy
TV programmes. The website was established by Mark Boosey, a freelance web developer
, originally as a hobby. However, in 2008, it was decided to expand the remit of the website to cover all forms of British comedy, and thus the BSG was re-launched as The British Comedy Guide, and has continued to expand since this point.
Other features added since the site's re-launch as The British Comedy Guide in 2008 include The Collings and Herrin Podcasts series, a section featuring interviews with people working in British comedy industry, a Twitter
-based news service, and the "Twitter Directory", which lists the people and organisations related to British comedy who use Twitter
.
which relies on broadcasters to put their programmes forward for nomination, and only uses a small panel of judges to determine the results. Additionally, The Comedy.co.uk Awards also seeks to name not just the winners, but the worst programme in each category too.
In order to be considered for a Comedy.co.uk Award, a programme must be a British comedy which has had at least one new episode broadcast on British TV or radio between 1 January and 31 December of the previous year. The only exception is shows which span across the new year. For example, if a series began in the previous year, and one episode is shown in the year of voting, the series does not count unless another series of the same show was broadcast later that year.
The visitors taking part in the poll are asked to give three votes in each category: one to their favourite show, one to their second favourite show, and one to their least favourite show. The vote for "top favourite" scores two points for the selected programme, and a vote for a "second favourite" scores one. The comedy programme with the most points is declared the winner in that category. The show which receives the highest number of "worst" votes is declared the worst comedy in that category.
All of the awards are voted for by the website's users except one, the British Comedy Guide Editors' Award, which is an award voted for just by the controllers of the guide, and is given "to the show, person, channel, or indeed anything else comedy related that deserves some recognition."
and Richard Herring
; As It Occurs to Me
, presented by Herring; No Pressure To Be Funny, a satirical podcast presented by James O'Brien; Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown, a panel game
presented by the sketch troupe Pappy's; and What Are You Laughing At?, the BCG's own podcast, presented by Dave Cohen, which reviews comedy and covers comedy news stories. As It Occurs to Me was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2010.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
website
Website
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covering all forms of British comedy
British comedy
British comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years.-Film comedy:...
, across all media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
. At the time of writing, the BCG has published guides to more than 1,200 individual British comedies - primarily TV and radio situation comedy
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
, sketch shows, comedy dramas, satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
, variety
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
and panel game
Panel game
A panel game or panel show is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Panelists may compete with each other, such as on The News Quiz; facilitate play by guest contestants, such as on Match Game/Blankety Blank; or do both, such as on Wait Wait.....
s. Other notable features on the BCG include a news section, a message board, interviews with comedians and actors, a series of comment and opinion articles, a searchable merchandise database, and a section offering advice to aspiring comedy writers. The website also runs The Comedy.co.uk Awards and hosts several podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
series including The Collings and Herrin Podcasts
Collings and Herrin (podcast)
The Collings and Herrin Podcast was a topical podcast produced by broadcaster Andrew Collins and comedian Richard Herring. Its title derives from the recurring Richard Herring trope of misspelling names for comic effect....
and As It Occurs To Me
As It Occurs To Me
As It Occurs To Me is an internet comedy sketch and stand-up show written and performed by Richard Herring and co-starring Dan Tetsell, TV's Emma Kennedy and Christian Reilly. It has been performed since 2009 at the Leicester Square Theatre and occasionally at the Bloomsbury Theatre and is...
, the later of which was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award
Sony Radio Academy Awards
The Sony Radio Academy Awards , started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. They are run by ZAFER Associates in association with the Radio Academy...
in 2010.
Reportedly, The British Comedy Guide attracts over 500,000 unique visitors a month, making it Britain's most-visited comedy-related reference website.
Background
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
TV programmes. The website was established by Mark Boosey, a freelance web developer
Web developer
A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over HTTP from a web server to a web browser....
, originally as a hobby. However, in 2008, it was decided to expand the remit of the website to cover all forms of British comedy, and thus the BSG was re-launched as The British Comedy Guide, and has continued to expand since this point.
Other features added since the site's re-launch as The British Comedy Guide in 2008 include The Collings and Herrin Podcasts series, a section featuring interviews with people working in British comedy industry, a Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
-based news service, and the "Twitter Directory", which lists the people and organisations related to British comedy who use Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
.
Key People
| Ref | Joined | Person | Job Title(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Mark Boosey | Site Editor | |
| 2005 | Aaron Brown | Site Editor | |
| 2006 | Ian Dunn (aka Ian Wolf) | Data Specialist | |
| 2009 | Si Hawkins | Regular Columnist | |
| 2009 | Anna Lowman | Regular Columnist | |
| 2010 | Jay Richardson | Live Reviewer | |
The Comedy.co.uk Awards
In January 2007, the BSG created The British Sitcom Guide Awards, which were later renamed The British Comedy Guide Awards and are now known as The Comedy.co.uk Awards. The awards are notable for allowing the public to choose the winners via an online poll, and because they use no shortlist - all broadcast programmes are included in the public vote. This differs from the British Comedy AwardsBritish Comedy Awards
The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.-History:...
which relies on broadcasters to put their programmes forward for nomination, and only uses a small panel of judges to determine the results. Additionally, The Comedy.co.uk Awards also seeks to name not just the winners, but the worst programme in each category too.
In order to be considered for a Comedy.co.uk Award, a programme must be a British comedy which has had at least one new episode broadcast on British TV or radio between 1 January and 31 December of the previous year. The only exception is shows which span across the new year. For example, if a series began in the previous year, and one episode is shown in the year of voting, the series does not count unless another series of the same show was broadcast later that year.
The visitors taking part in the poll are asked to give three votes in each category: one to their favourite show, one to their second favourite show, and one to their least favourite show. The vote for "top favourite" scores two points for the selected programme, and a vote for a "second favourite" scores one. The comedy programme with the most points is declared the winner in that category. The show which receives the highest number of "worst" votes is declared the worst comedy in that category.
All of the awards are voted for by the website's users except one, the British Comedy Guide Editors' Award, which is an award voted for just by the controllers of the guide, and is given "to the show, person, channel, or indeed anything else comedy related that deserves some recognition."
2006
The first awards were presented in January 2007 and were known at the time as The British Sitcom Guide Awards 2006, but have since been re-named. Below are the awards.| Award | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| New British TV Sitcom | The IT Crowd The IT Crowd The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry... |
Bo! in the USA |
| Returning British TV Sitcom | Green Wing Green Wing Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt.... (Series 2) |
My Hero (Series 6) |
| British TV Sitcom Special | The Vicar of Dibley The Vicar of Dibley The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. It aired from 1994 to 2007... |
The Green Green Grass From Here to Paternity From Here to Paternity is an episode of the BBC sitcom, The Green Green Grass. It was first screened on 25 December 2006, as the 2006 Christmas Special. -Synopsis:... |
| British TV Sketch Show | That Mitchell and Webb Look That Mitchell and Webb Look That Mitchell and Webb Look is a British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Shown on BBC Two since 2006, its first two series were directed by David Kerr, who also directed Mitchell and Webb's previous television sketch show The Mitchell and Webb Situation, whereas... |
Tittybangbang Tittybangbang Tittybangbang is a female-led television sketch comedy, performed by Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen, which ran between 2005 and 2007 on BBC Three. The show was largely written by Bob Mortimer and Jill Parker and produced by their company Pett Productions.-History:Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark... |
| British TV Panel Show / Satire | QI QI QI is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry, and featuring permanent panellist Alan Davies. Most of the questions are extremely obscure, making it unlikely that the correct answer will be given... |
Best of the Worst Best of the Worst Best of the Worst is a show aired by Fox Broadcasting Company as a part of its 1991-92 schedule.Best of the Worst, hosted by Greg Kinnear, was a lighthearted celebration of the worst elements of life — the worst movies, the worst places to get married, the worst museums, the worst airline... |
| Best and Worst of David Mitchell David Mitchell (actor) David James Stuart Mitchell is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb, whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the duo star in the... |
That Mitchell and Webb Look | Blunder Blunder (TV series) Blunder was a Channel 4 comedy sketch series shown in the UK on E4 and repeated on Channel 4. No announcement of a second series has yet been made.-Characters:-The Baron:... |
| Comedy Of The Year | Green Wing | |
| Editors' Award | The Complete Guide to Parenting The Complete Guide to Parenting The Complete Guide to Parenting is an ITV comedy drama, starring Peter Davison as George Huntley, Professor of Child Psychology at London University, best-selling author of Hey Mum & Dad, Get Your Act Together and LBC resident parenting guru. He finds his so-called parenting expertise put to the... |
2007
The second awards were presented in January 2008, originally under the title The British Sitcom Guide Awards 2007. Below are the results.| Award | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| New British TV Sitcom | Gavin and Stacey | The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle is a British sitcom that was originally aired on BBC 2 in 2007. The programme was written and created by Jennifer Saunders and Tanya Byron... |
| Returning British TV Sitcom | Peep Show Peep Show (TV series) Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's seventh series makes it... (Series 4) |
Hyperdrive Hyperdrive (TV series) Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two series in 2006 and 2007, A third series is yet to be commissioned and the actor Kevin Eldon has indicated that is unlikely to be... (Series 2) |
| British TV Sitcom Special | Extras | To the Manor Born To the Manor Born To the Manor Born is a British sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special edition appeared in 2007. Starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the first 20 episodes and the 2007 special were written by Peter Spence, the creator, while the 1981 finale was written by Christopher... |
| British TV Sketch Show | The Armstrong and Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton and The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson.The series followed four... |
The Catherine Tate Show The Catherine Tate Show The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two and is shown worldwide through the BBC... |
| British TV Panel Show / Satire | QI | And Then You Die And Then You Die (TV series) And Then You Die was a comedy panel show broadcast on the British TV channel Dave.It was hosted by a puppet called Barrie Stardust who is puppeteered by Dave Chapman.... |
| Comedy Of The Year | The IT Crowd The IT Crowd The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry... |
Tittybangbang |
| Editors' Award | Outnumbered Outnumbered Outnumbered is a British sitcom. Airing on BBC One since 2007, it stars Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner as a father and mother outnumbered by their three children... |
2008
The third awards were presented in January 2009 and were the first to include radio shows. The 2008 awards were known as the British Comedy Guide Awards 2008, but were re-named in 2009 to reflect the website's new URL. Below are the awards.| Award | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| New British TV Sitcom | The Inbetweeners The Inbetweeners The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom which aired for three series from 2008 to 2010 on E4. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show follows the life of suburban teenager Will , and three of his friends at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The Inbetweeners Movie was... |
Lab Rats Lab Rats Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory. It stars Chris Addison, who has co-written the series with Carl Cooper... |
| Returning British TV Sitcom | Outnumbered (Series 2) | Coming of Age Coming of Age (2008 TV series) For other uses, see Coming of Age Coming of Age was a British situation comedy written by Tim Dawson produced in house by BBC Productions and aired on BBC Three. The show took a direct look at five sixth form students, Jas, Ollie, Matt, Chloe and DK, as well as new character Robyn Crisp, who are... (Series 2) |
| British Radio Sitcom | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is an Above the Title Productions radio adaptation, dramatised by Dirk Maggs and John Langdon of Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul... |
The Lost Weblog of Scrooby Trevithick |
| British TV Sketch Show | Harry and Paul | Little Miss Jocelyn Little Miss Jocelyn Little Miss Jocelyn is a British TV sketch comedy written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien. The show is made up of studio sketches and hidden camera footage in which unsuspecting members of the public become part of a sketch.-History:... |
| British Radio Sketch Show | Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking is a comedy sketch show created by British Perrier Award winning comedian, Laura Solon. The show was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Following her success with Kopfraper's Syndrome: One Man and His Incredible Mind, Solon went on to create the show with the BBC... |
Tilt Tilt (radio) Tilt is a topical sketch show, written in the week before broadcast, and recorded the night before. The first, six episode series was broadcast on BBC 7, between March 27 and May 1, 2008,one of their growing number of specially commissioned projects.... |
| British TV Panel Show / Satire | Harry Hill's TV Burp Harry Hill's TV Burp Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British television comedy programme produced by Avalon Television for ITV and hosted by comedian Harry Hill. The show presents a satirical look at the week's television, including extracts from TV shows with added sketches, observational voice-overs, and guest appearances... |
The Wall The Wall (TV series) The Wall is a British comedy television programme presented by Alexa Chung and Rhys Thomas. The programme is produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three and premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008... |
| British Radio Panel Show / Satire | The Now Show The Now Show The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis... |
Act Your Age Act Your Age (radio series) Act Your Age is a panel game on BBC Radio 4 hosted by Simon Mayo. The series, created by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews , was first broadcast on 27 November 2008... |
| Comedy Of The Year | Peep Show Peep Show (TV series) Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's seventh series makes it... |
Coming of Age |
| Editors' Award | Bleak Expectations Bleak Expectations Bleak Expectations is a Radio 4 comedy series, whose first series premiered in August 2007. It is a pastiche of the works of Charles Dickens – such as Bleak House and Great Expectations, from which it derives its name – and costume dramas set in the same period, and parodies several of their plot... |
2009
The fourth awards were presented in January 2010. Below are the results.| Award | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| New British TV Sitcom | Psychoville Psychoville Psychoville is an award-winning British dark comedy television serial written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. It debuted on BBC Two on 18 June 2009. Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in... |
Big Top Big Top (2009 TV series) Big Top was a BBC television situation comedy series which first aired on 25 November 2009. The series was set in and around a travelling circus, aired on BBC One and BBC HD simultaneously. The series revolved around the performers and backstage staff of Circus Maestro. The first series consisted... |
| Returning British TV Sitcom | Peep Show (Series 6) | Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and initially revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings, played by Ralf Little , Sheridan Smith , Will Mellor , Natalie Casey and... (Series 8) |
| British Radio Sitcom | Bleak Expectations | Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! is a sitcom broadcast on BBC Radio 4, written by and starring Steve Delaney in the title role of Count Arthur Strong, a former variety star who has malapropisms, memory loss and other similar problems. Each episode follows the Count in his daily business and... |
| British TV Sketch Show | That Mitchell and Webb Look | Horne & Corden Horne & Corden Horne & Corden was a British sketch show written by Jon Brown, Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman and the cast, script edited by Sam Ward, and starring Mathew Horne and James Corden. It aired on BBC television in 2009. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 on BBC Three... |
| British Radio Sketch Show | That Mitchell and Webb Sound That Mitchell and Webb Sound That Mitchell and Webb Sound is a comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4 which started on 28 August 2003. A second series was broadcast in 2005 with a third starting on 24 May 2007. The series became adapted for television as That Mitchell and Webb Look in 2006. The series is seen in some ways a... |
Ayres on the Air |
| British TV Panel Show / Satire | QI | Celebrity Juice Celebrity Juice Celebrity Juice is a British television comedy panel game show on ITV2 that has been airing since 24 September, 2008. The show is presented by Keith Lemon, with regular captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton, alongside regular panellist Rufus Hound... |
| British Radio Panel Show / Satire | I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or Clue, is a BBC radio comedy panel game broadcast since 11 April 1972 at the rate of one or two series each year , transmitted on BBC Radio 4, with occasional repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC's World Service... |
The Christian O'Connell Solution |
| Comedy Of The Year | The Thick of It The Thick of It The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed fourteen half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's... |
Horne & Corden |
| Editors' Award | Horrible Histories Horrible Histories (TV series) Horrible Histories may refer to:* Horrible Histories , a 2001-2002 animated children's TV series* Horrible Histories , a 2009 live-action children's TV series... / Sorry I've Got No Head |
2010
The fifth awards were presented in January 2011. Below are the results.| Award | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| New British TV Sitcom | The Trip | Trinny & Susannah: From Boom To Bust |
| Returning British TV Sitcom | Peep Show (Series 7) | Coming of Age (Series 2) |
| British Radio Sitcom | Another Case of Milton Jones Another Case of Milton Jones Another Case of Milton Jones is the third distinct comedy programme starring Milton Jones to be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 . The programme is in its fifth series, which started on Radio 4 on Thursday 21 July 2011. The four previous series were broadcast in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010... |
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| British TV Sketch Show | That Mitchell and Webb Look | Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights |
| British Radio Sketch Show | Sarah Millican's Support Group | |
| British TV Panel Show / Satire | QI | Celebrity Juice |
| British Radio Panel Show / Satire | I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or Clue, is a BBC radio comedy panel game broadcast since 11 April 1972 at the rate of one or two series each year , transmitted on BBC Radio 4, with occasional repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC's World Service... |
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| British TV Entertainment Show | Newswipe with Charle Brooker Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is a British television review programme broadcast on BBC Four by Charlie Brooker. The programme contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.-Format:... |
James Corden's World Cup Live James Corden's World Cup Live James Corden's World Cup Live was a comedy chat show hosted by comedian James Corden during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The show was broadcast after every ITV evening match with Abbey Clancy, celebrity guests, a football hero, a studio full of fans, Corden's friends and family, his human World Cup... |
| British Radio Entertainment Show | French and Saunders French and Saunders French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.... |
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| British TV Comedy Drama | Misfits Misfits (TV series) Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4, and was... |
Shameless Shameless Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004... |
| Comedy of The Year | Miranda Miranda (TV series) Miranda is a BBC television series co-written by and starring comedienne Miranda Hart, which first aired on BBC Two on 9 November 2009. The situation comedy also features Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge, James Holmes and Sally Phillips... |
Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights |
| Editors' Award | Roy Clarke Roy Clarke Roy Clarke OBE is an English comedy writer.-Career:Clarke is best known for creating BBC Sitcoms; Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances... |
Podcasts
The BCG currently host five podcasts: The Collins and Herring Podcasts a satirical podcast starring Andrew CollinsAndrew Collins
Andrew Collins may refer to:* Andrew B. Collins , a U.S. research analyst* Andrew Collins , British journalist, scriptwriter, and broadcaster...
and Richard Herring
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
; As It Occurs to Me
As It Occurs To Me
As It Occurs To Me is an internet comedy sketch and stand-up show written and performed by Richard Herring and co-starring Dan Tetsell, TV's Emma Kennedy and Christian Reilly. It has been performed since 2009 at the Leicester Square Theatre and occasionally at the Bloomsbury Theatre and is...
, presented by Herring; No Pressure To Be Funny, a satirical podcast presented by James O'Brien; Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown, a panel game
Panel game
A panel game or panel show is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Panelists may compete with each other, such as on The News Quiz; facilitate play by guest contestants, such as on Match Game/Blankety Blank; or do both, such as on Wait Wait.....
presented by the sketch troupe Pappy's; and What Are You Laughing At?, the BCG's own podcast, presented by Dave Cohen, which reviews comedy and covers comedy news stories. As It Occurs to Me was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2010.
External links
- UK Comedy News - Twitter feed from the site providing general comedy news.
- UK Comedy DVDs - Twitter feed from the site concentrating on DVD release news and deals.