Normally, at this time of the month, I'd be telling you what TV is on at the BFI in the next-but-one month's time. Unfortunately, there isn't any. Some films, though, I hear.

Planning ahead? Like a laugh? Then you'll be delighted to hear that there are still tickets to see Rob Brydon at the Cardiff Millennium Centre on December 8th. Get them while you still can, since the 1st December tickets have now sold out.

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Anyone interested? London, Monday and Thursday next week, with Adam Buxton, Kevin Bishop, Iain Lee and Daisy Haggard. Giving ad execs a kicking, because they deserve it, apparently.

THE SCUM ALSO RISES

Bill Hicks called them Satan's Little Helpers. They're the flaky, shaky, fakey “creatives” who work in the advertising industry. Underworked and overpaid, they're the people who spend all day trying to spend all day trying to persuade you to buy stuff you don't want with money you don't have. They're scum!

But they're likeable scum. There's Billy, who's smart and funny and STILL works in advertising; uncontrollable urge-bag Keaton who is possibly evil but undeniably crazed; ambitious, neurotic, spoiled Emma; and hopeless, witless, feckless Greg. Their boss, Satan herself, is addled, raddled agency boss Mrs Broom, who LOVES to hire and fire, sometimes doing both to the same people in the same meeting.

Bright, sharp, original and funny... It reaches the parts other comedies cannot reach. Starring Kevin Bishop (Star Stories, The Kevin Bishop Show), Adam Buxton (Adam and Joe), Iain Lee (The 11 O'Clock Show) & Daisy Haggard (Man Stroke Woman), the show will taping for ONE NIGHT ONLY at BBC TV Centre on Thursday 12th June. However, on Monday 9th June, the whole cast will be performing the show at The Kings Head, Islington. This will be the first full performance of the show and the audience feedback will be used to tweak the show before the studio recording on Thursday 12th June at BBC TV Centre..

Booking is now open and may apply online via our website at www.sroaudiences.com

Time for our monthly round-up of forthcoming TV at the BFI. The big, if you can call it that, season is a retrospective of David Rose's work. Rose was a drama-director producer at the Beeb, responsible for Z Cars amongst other things; he also helped to found Film Four.

• 5 July, 2pm: Licking Hitler + Match of The Day – two episode of Play for Today, one directed by David Hale about WW2 propaganda, the other directed by Stephen Frears looking at a family wedding.
• 5 July, 4.15pm: David Rose - My Journey Together. David Rose talks about some key productions.

The other TV event, other than a Dennis Potter play, Angels Are So Few (sort of the flipside of Brimstone and Treacle), being added to the Mediatheque, is a conversation with Hazel Adair, who created Britain's first ever soap, Sixpenny Corner, as well as Compact and Crossroads.

• 11 July, 6.10pm: A screening of an episode of Compact followed by an interview with Hazel Adair.

Not much this month, but if you're a big TV history buff, I'm sure you'll be dropping by.

Members' priority postal booking opens 26 May
Members' online and phone booking opens 2 June
Public booking opens 6 June

Went to the NFT's showing of Murrain, an episode of the old play strand Against The Crowd* written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, and Robin Redbreast, from the BBC's Play for Today written by British arch-surrealist John Bowen.

Robin Redbreast
Surprisingly, Robin Redbreast was the stronger of the two: think a cross between Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man and The Aphrodite Inheritance, all set in the Cotswalds, in which a newly single TV script editor finds that country folk have their own strange ways. Absolutely off its head, with bizarre naked karate in the woods, appearances by Herne the Hunter and Wayland the Smithy, and some of the weirdest dialogue you'd ever hear, it was just endlessly entertaining.

Murrain
Murrain was relatively normal by comparison, a standard piece of Kneale fare in which superstition meets science – in the form of a pig farmer who thinks a local woman is really a witch and a vet who wants to protect the little old lady from those nasty bumpkins. If anything, it proved that DoPs in the 70s shouldn't have got ambitions above their stations so many years before the invention of the Steadicam. Not really worth looking out for unless you're a big fan of Bernard Lee (the original M in the Bond movies) or the scary dad in Sapphire and Steel - Assignment 1.

The audience: As always, it's worth reviewing the audience:

• An above average beardy weirdy count this time, with a folk music DJ playing in the bar afterwards
• Two audible uses of 'the voice'
• On my left, a young posh girl out with a ridiculously older man who clearly wasn't a relative (shudder) and who insisted on narrating the plays to each other when they weren't making out
• On my right, a man with little understanding of personal boundaries and an incredible sinus problem: so bad was it, that the man to his right had to squeeze his way past Kim Newman at the end of Murrain to escape the torture in time for Robin Redbreast. I could not escape past 'the lovers'
• The man behind me started snoring 10 minutes before the end.

I've had better nights out

* My, didn't they think they were being subversive?

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