Reviews

Happy Valley's James Norton To Star In BBC Comedy Jerk
If you became hooked on James Norton when he was in Happy Valley tune in to the new series of Jerk where he is one of the big name signings for the third series starring Tim Renkow as a hapless anti-... more
Streaming: A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, Netflix
Jamie Demetriou already has his place in the comedy pantheon of greats with three series of the Bafta-winning Stath Lets Flats under his belt. He now gets his own sketch show special on Netflix which... more
TV: Funny Woman, Sky Max – Interview With Gemma Arterton
When I first read that Sky was making a series about a woman fighting sexism in the world of comedy, I expected to see an English version of the award-winning The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which charted... more
TV Review: Deep Fake: Neighbour Wars, ITVX
There has been a lot of talk lately about AI deep fakes making us wonder if the news is real so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a comedic use for the new technology. For... more
TV Review: Everyone Else Burns, C4
I'd only recently watched post-apocalyptic drama The Last Of Us when I watched Everyone Else Burns and my first thought was, here we go again, you wait ages for something about the destruction of... more
Theatre Review: The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have talked recently of putting their TV series Inside No 9 onstage. And in a way they've done it here, if they decided to do their own take on the classic... more
Review: A Christmas Carol-ish...By Mr Swallow, Soho Theatre
Nick Mohammed is best known these days as Nate in the award-garlanded soccer comedy Ted Lasso. But before his football fame kicked off he regularly performed in comic plays as Mr Swallow, a dweeby,... more
Inside No 9 Christmas Special
It's that time again when the challenge is to write about an episode of Inside No 9 without giving away any spoilers. The Bones of St Nicholas is a Christmas one-off, although a recent interview with... more
 The Horne Section TV Show
Does The Horne Section TV Show count as a Taskmaster spin-off? After the books and interactive online games comes Taskmaster: The Sitcom? Well, not quite, I think the go-to term is 'semi-canonical'.... more
TV: Am I Being Unreasonable? BBC One
But first a word or two of warning...The review below contains some spoilers but not the main ones so don't come crying to me if...Well, that was a heck of a ride. The full series of Am I Being... more
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