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
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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
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
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
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
Dara O Briain hits the ground running in his latest show, So...Where Were We? Or maybe that should be limping. He arrives onstage brandishing a stick which helps to illustrate a story about his... more
Comedy has clearly taken a turn for the dark lately. There's the domestic horror of Am I Being Unreasonable? and now here comes sexy slasher Wreck sailing into port. It's more thriller than sitcom... more
While all of the cast are very watchable in Am I Being Unreasonable? they might as well rename this series The Lenny Rush Show. Twentysomething newcomer Rush, as Nic's son Ollie, pretty much runs... more
If TV hasn't already eaten itself it has now. Jon Richardson: Take My Mother-in-Law wasn't just a slight twist on the comic-pairs-with-parent format as done by Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganathan and... more
The pace is hotting up in the current series of Taskmaster with the relative competitive edges of the contestants – Fern Brady, Darsa O Briain, John Kearns, Sarah Millican and Munya Chawawa –... more
