Rufus Jones
C4 has decided not to recommission acclaimed comedy Home after two series.
The transmission details have been revealed for the new series of Home, starring Rufus Jones, Youssef Kerkour and Rebekah Staton. It will begin on Wed Feb 5th at 10pm on Channel 4 and the boxed set of the whole series will stream on All 4 after the first episode.
American broadcaster NBC is to make a pilot of Home, the Channel 4 comedy written by and starring Rufus Jones.
Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Home, the asylum seeker comedy written by and starring Rufus Jones.
Rufus Jones is not stupid. When I tweeted a link to the trailer for his new series Home and said it was about a family finding a Syrian refugee in the back of their Audi in Dorking some wags (hat tips to journalist Gavin Martin and promoter Toby Jones) responded by suggesting it sounded like a live action Paddington. The thought had clearly already occurred to Jones when he was writing Home as he makes the same pre-emptive gag in the very first episode.
Channel 4 comedy Home, about a family in Dorking who encounter and befriend a Syrian asylum seeker, is written by Rufus Jones and stars Jones, Rebekah Staton and Youssef Kerkour. BTJ has seen the first episode and it is very funny and also touching, intelligent and pretty unique. People have compared it to Paddington, but don't worry writer Jones has already neatly addressed that in the opening epsidoe.
Watch this trailer for new Channel 4 comedy Home, about a family in Dorking who meet a Syrian asylum seeker. It's written by Rufus Jones and stars Jones, Rebekah Staton and Youssef Kerkour. BTJ has seen the first episode and it is very funny and also touching, intelligent and special. Review to follow closer to transmission on Tuesday, March 5 at 9.45pm.
Comedian/actor Rufus Jones (W1A, Inside No. 9, Camping, Hunderby) is to star in a new self-penned six-part series for Channel 4. Home is described as a warm, touching and deftly surprising modern sitcom which gets to the very essence of home and family.
Don’t be fooled by the jaunty sub-Mumfords music at the start of episode 5. Julia Davis’ comedy-drama comes to a head in all sorts of horrendous ways in these last two instalments.
At some point most of the characters have a meltdown of sorts. There were points when I was not even sure if I was watching a comedy, the story was so bleak. At times this was grotesque in the style of The League of Gentlemen, but in some ways it was far worse because it was so rooted in middle class, middle aged normality.
It’s interesting the way Sky Atlantic has scheduled Camping. The latest series from the pungent pen of Julia Davis is filmed as six separate episodes but is being shown as two at a time back-to-back over a three-week period. Maybe Sky thought the episodes were so good they couldn’t wait to get them out.
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