Colin From Accounts began the most awkward meet-cute and turned into one of television's best love stories. When this decade is over, this warm-hearted and brilliantly funny Australian comedy deserves to be remembered as one of the best comedies of its...
I last saw Sue Johnston playing one of an ensemble of ageing actors in Channel 4’s Truelove as old friends whose meet-ups were increasing in frequency as they met at mutual friends’ funerals. It was from this bleak backdrop that the series grew into a dark reflection...
In the greyest of grey Januaries, it is a gold-star-level move by Apple to bring us the third season of sunshine-in-a-bottle comedy drama Shrinking. The Jason Segel/Harrison Ford vehicle, focusing on grieving therapist Jimmy Laird (Segel) and his surrounding support...
The story will revolve around an unlikely friendship between two people who meet at a knee trauma clinic BBC Wales and BBC Comedy have commissioned a new comedy co-starring and co-written by Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs, that looks at the challenges and rewards of...
The six-part series will feature a host of comedy stars, including Mackenzie Crook, Sir Michael Palin, Pearce Quigley, Lauren Patel, Sophie Willan, Jon Pointing and Paul Kaye, New on-set photography has been released, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the...
BBC’s former Head of Values Ian Fletcher appointed to exciting new role as Director of Integrity for upcoming global football tournament Having previously held a leadership role on the London Games of Twenty Twelve and a spell in W1A as the Head of Values at the BBC,...
More than five years since their Grecian escapades, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite for The Trip to the Northern Lights — the eagerly awaited fifth instalment of the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed Sky Original comedy series. Directed once again by...
Matt and Luke board the TV Time Machine to look at the TV landscape of May 2000. Steven Moffat's relationship comedy Coupling begins on BBC Two. David Baddiel and Frank Skinner take to a sofa for their new format which sees them sit in front of an audience with no...
Sharpe created, wrote and will direct the series, being produced by 'Black Doves' production company Sister. Will Sharpe and Ayo Edebiri are set to unite in the new rom-com series “Prodigies” for Apple TV+ .Described in the synopsis as an “unusual take” on a classic...
Big Boys is hilarious, filthy and heartbreaking. But you’re reading about series 3 so you know this already. However, did you know that writer Jack Rooke can twist the knife even further and make you cry snotty sobs and howl with laughter, all in the space of a...
Matt, Dawn and Gary board the TV Time Machine and enter a new Millennium. They review four new shows that began in January. Dom Jolly takes to the streets to terrorise and irritate the British public in Channel 4's hidden camera hit Trigger Happy TV. The BBC attempt...
It’s hard to believe that, in the realm of greatest love stories told by the BBC - alongside Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and Fleabag and the Hot Priest - we have a Welsh truck driver/sometime bouncer and a dodgy Essex plumber who never kiss, yet that’s what Gavin...
When the second series of Bad Sisters was announced, it seemed impossible that the second would match the first. Evil JP was such a ruthless and relentless presence, how could they possibly fill the huge void that character would leave? Answer, Ian Riley/Cormac...
Last week, The Wagon (Fiona Shaw's Angelica) was hit by a boom on a boat and sent overboard. As the Garvey's worry they might 'go down' for murder, the show itself is spinning so many plates. Is Angelica dead? Is Ian (the new man in all their lives) as kind as he...
In the sixth episode of the final season of Somebody Somewhere, Sam (the heartbreakingly tender Bridget Everett) takes a walk with a man she finds attractive. Known to her as 'Iceland' (the always brilliant Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), he is living in her parent's old...
On a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sharon Horgan explained the meanings of some of the Irish phrases used in the show. Specifically, Wagon, which is used constantly to refer to Angelica. It means "a woman who is not very nice" or more...
We're now halfway through this second series of Bad Sisters and no closer to finding out what the sisters had in the boot of that car that Eva (Sharon Horgan) was struggling to control. Something heavy wrapped in a blanket, which they were keen but nervous to dispose...
In a recent interview, Bad Sister star and writer Sharon Horgan explained her decision to kill off Grace (Anne Marie Duff) "I had to break them in order to build them up" The bold move gives this second series a completely different feel and higher stakes. Now, the...
*This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Series 2 of Bad Sisters which are now available on Apple TV+* It’s been two years since Bad Sisters ended, and we learned what happened to John Paul—the number one mummy’s boy. It's also been two years since...
Matt and Dawn are back to review four new shows available this week. It's a very Apple TV+ heavy week with the return of The Garvey sisters in Sharon Horgan's brilliantly dark comedy Bad Sisters. There were questions about whether we needed a second series of this...
There's a scene in the second series of Alma’s Not Normal where acting coach, and now successful stand-up comedian Ian (Dave Spikey) tells Alma she needs a UPS (Unique Selling Point) if she wants to make it in comedy. Alma struggles at first to identify exactly what...
Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy has today announced in partnership with BBC Scotland a brand new sitcom, Only Child, from the creators of Guilt, starring Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh. Alan Partridge is confirmed to return with a new documentary series as he...
Apple TV+ have announced the release date for The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin starring Noel Feilding. The six-part comedy follows Dick Turpin as he sets out on a journey of wildly absurd escapades when he’s made the reluctant leader of a band of...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...