Radio 2 Comedy Showcase 2018.txt
Radio 2's Comedy Showcase - 2018
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1 - 2018-04-23 22:00 - The Taylors
From writer Simon Carlyle (creator of BBC2 hit comedy Two Doors Down). Starring Shane Richie, Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones, Benidorm), Jack Bence (Bad Education, Sherlock, Peep Show), Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, Uncle, The Crown), Kirsty J Curtis (Rellik, People Just Do Nothing, The Halcyon and Ella Kenion (The Catherine Tate Show).
A sitcom about a fun-loving nouveau riche couple, Gary and Melissa, and their noisy family who've recently relocated to a middle class street in Slough.
We follow Gary and Melissa and their kids as they adjust to life in their new neighbourhood. They're not mixing with the aristocracy but they are in quite a middle class area so there's a marked difference between Gary and Melissa and their new neighbours.
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2 - 2018-04-23 22:30 - Censored
Julian Clary hosts the game that takes the sense out of censorship, bleeping everything from celebrity soundbites to TV clips and interviews with members of the public. It's down to his panel of guests - Dane Baptiste, Rachel Parris and Arlene Phillips - to work out what the bleep is going on.
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3 - 2018-04-24 22:00 - Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle
Jeremy Vine is the UK's lunchtime radio legend. But when he's not interviewing politicians and personalities, unearthing local stories of national importance, or talking to someone from an owl sanctuary in Stevenage, he has another vital role to perform.
Whenever he pauses to play a record, he knows he has three minutes to offer off-air advice to the world's great and good - all of whom have asked him for help in their moment of need. God knows Donald Trump has problems.
Which is why they turn, in private, to Jeremy (as played by Lewis MacLeod - Postman Pat, Star Wars: Episode I - Phantom Menace). Featuring Jess Robinson and Terry Mynott, this is a part-scripted, part-improvised spoof phone-in, where most of the celebrities in distress are played by impersonators, but a couple of whom may yet be real.
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4 - 2018-04-24 22:30 - Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better
Harry Hill, Fay Ripley and Evelyn Mok pitch inventions and ideas that they believe will make all our lives better. Josh will pick his favourite innovation from our guests offerings with the help of his experts: 19-year-old self-made millionaire Akshay Ruparelia and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and problem solver Dr Lucy Rogers. Between Josh, his guests, his experts and his dedicated focus group - also known as the studio audience - he will troubleshoot, critique and analyse each idea potentially turning an awful invention into a great one. This is the show that believes there is no such thing as a bad idea. Will our celebrity guests disprove that notion or will they become Britain's answer to Elon Musk?
Josh says "I am absolutely delighted the BBC has given me the chance change the world. Or, more accurately, ask three of my favourite people to come up with some insane ideas. It is a show we are hugely proud of and I can't wait for people to hear it".
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5 - 2018-04-25 22:00 - Dog Days
Sharp new comedy about dogs and their owners, from an award-winning writer and cast.
Dog Days is set around the lives of a group of dog walkers. People whose daily interaction is controlled and led by their four-legged friends. They live different lives in the same neighbourhood, the only common thread being their pets.
Jean (Gwyneth Powell) is retired and tolerates her daily interaction with Alan (John Henshaw), who is struggling to come to terms with retirement. They bump into other regular park dwellers Tatts (Joel Fry) who hands out orders at his military fitness class, Gary (Johnny Vegas) who feels life keeps dealing him a bad hand and Lisa (Tanya Franks) who will turn her hand to anything to make a quick buck.
This episode sees Jean's plans to fill Alan's day scuppered when Gary's dog goes missing and they're all roped in to help him find her.
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6 - 2018-04-25 22:30 - What If...?
A new panel show, hosted by Sara Cox. Three celebrities ponder definitive moments in pop culture history. What if events as we know them had taken a different turn? What if famous individuals had made completely different choices? What if we had journeyed down paths not taken?
Guests include stand-up comedian Grainne Maguire, science writer and broadcaster, Dr Adam Rutherford and Rylan Clarke-Neal from The X Factor.
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7 - 2018-04-30 22:00 - The World According to Harry Priest
There's nothing Harry Priest likes better than rules. Rules help keep life bearable, especially if life has dealt you a bad hand, like it has to Harry. After losing his job to a robot and his wife to cancer, Harry Priest has managed to get himself signed off as long-term sick. He's not a scrounger, mind - he just believes he spent his life contributing to the state so he's due some compensation, and anyway he's not about to retrain as a B&Q 'helper'.
Luckily, Harry has enough to keep him occupied: living with him are his mother-in-law Genie (permanently drunk whilst claiming to be six years sober), eldest daughter Nicola and her fiancee Gaz (trying for a baby) and youngest daughter Julia and her new boyfriend Jamie, just returned from university. They can all stay there as long as they abide by Harry's "rules" - tricky as Harry keeps making up new ones.
Harry - Bradley Walsh
Nicola - Kerry Howard
Gaz - Michael Salami
Genie - Sherrie Hewson
Jamie - Tom Stourton
Julia - Rebecca Humphries
Written by Neil Webster
Producer - Sam Michell
A BBC Studios Production.
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8 - 2018-04-30 22:30 - What Is Normal?
As part of Radio 2's Funny Fortnight, Sara Pascoe and Aisling Bea host this chat-show-panel-show hybrid that hammers out whether our quirks are perfectly acceptable, or just plain weird...
We've all got our foibles, haven't we? We all "like it the way we like it". But then, if we're aware of our foibles, we probably know how strange they must seem to everyone else. And then, in those quiet little moments, we sit and ask ourselves, "what's normal?"
Well, stop asking yourself - you're biased for a start. It's time to put it to the general public. And strap in - cos you might not like the answer...
Over the course of the programme, our guests will reveal a side of themselves that they may think is perfectly 'normal' but the rest of us think is absolutely absurd behaviour. The winner is the person deemed to be the 'most normal'.
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9 - 2018-05-01 22:00 - Le Maire
Le Maire follows Harriet (Rosie Cavaliero - Jane Eyre), a potential candidate for the role of Mayor of Rachelais; the small French village that she and her husband Roy (Tim Key - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa) have settled in. Their perfect little French life, away from the issues occurring in the UK, seems full of peace and 'tranquillite'. However, on the eve of the vote, her irresponsible and unpredictable brother Ed (Jonny Sweet) comes crashing into their continental lives (as well as the local vineyard), putting all of her plans into question.
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10 - 2018-05-01 22:30 - One Night Only
One Night Only is an all-singing extravaganza in which Brian Conley sets 3 guests a series of challenges to see if they can win the leading role in a spectacular musical finale.
Spencer Jones and London Hughes join in the fun, but who is the mystery third guest? And which of them will play Maria in an end-of-show potted musical tribute to The Sound of Music?
Host Brian Conley is assisted by triple-threat Pippa Evans (Showstoppers), singing much loved numbers from hit musicals alongside some fabulous new compositions from Richie Webb (Horrible Histories),
Script by the cast, Jack Bernhardt and Mike Shephard
Produced by Victoria Lloyd
A BBC Studios Production.
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11 - 2018-05-02 22:00 - Proposal
PROPOSAL is a sitcom starring Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners) and Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who), written by Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen, stars of Radio 4's acclaimed sketch show The Pin.
It follows couple Jamie (Thomas) and Lucy (Mackie), as Jamie builds up the nerve to pop the question - and the series of disasters that follow as he attempts to negotiate the unwritten rules of marriage proposals. First he has to ask permission - but not just from Lucy's dad, Mike (Nigel Lindsay, Four Lions). As Jamie's enthusiastic but deeply unhelpful friends Chris (Ben Ashenden, Bridget Jones's Baby, Tracey Ullman's Show) and Tom (Alex Owen, Crackanory, Wannabe) are quick to point out, he needs to check in with her mum too. After all, it is 2018.
For her part, ambitious career woman Lucy is not sure about the institution of marriage. And as his behaviour gets increasingly suspicious, she's becoming less sure about Jamie. Proposal is a comedy about how a heartfelt longing to 'do the right thing' for the one you love can go seriously wrong.
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12 - 2018-05-02 22:30 - Celebrity Lip Service
A gang of Britain's most talented up-and-coming impressionists use their catalogue of voices to explore the wonderful world of fame and celebrity.
Through a series of prank calls and hilarious set ups they'll find out just how far people will go to a satisfy a star. For example, would Pizza Express in Watford clear its premises so a certain Scientologist can dine with his cats? Will Exeter City Council agree to turn off all their street lights so Katie Hopkins can finally sleep at night?
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