In conversation with Caitlin Moran

RadioTimes.com met the outspoken feminist on the set of her Channel 4 comedy - and she didn't disappoint.

Radio Times review

Caitlin Moran's modern-day sitcom inspired by her early life in Wolverhampton (co-written with her sister Caroline) finally arrives for a full series. And the Garry clan have lost none of their eccentricity, curiosity, honesty and ebullience since the Christmas 2013 pilot. Like all good comedies it creates its own world and language, though the closest analogy would be to a female-heavy Shameless (albeit where our heroine ends up with a column on The Times).

The Caitlin character is Germaine (Helen Monks), a spiky, idealistic dreamer dressed like a punked-up cross between Helena Bonham Carter and 1984-era Madonna (the pop star, not the mother of God).

There are other enjoyable turns from Rebekah Staton as forthright, smart, wisecracking mum Della, whose advice always seems spot-on, and Philip Jackson's Grampy. He's the only significant male, but his character is totally at home in this oestrogen-heavy working-class wonderland.

Radio Times review

Vic, Bob and Beef are entering a danceathon in Julie's bistro. They've got their killer moves worked out. There's the one where Vic pretends to be Richard III extracting sardines from a pantry, and the one where Bob throws wrens towards Saturn. But then Vic and Beef set about breaking each other's legs...

The plot doesn't matter, of course. Slightly more structured as Fools now is - Bob goes to the bistro "to move the story on" - we're here to be sprayed with a thousand stupid ideas. Fine bits of comic business include Vic's impossible crotch-grabbing arm, and Julie (Morgana Robinson) claiming to have done the choreography for Ross Kemp's Gangs of Namibia.

Paddy McGuinness interview

"Since I've had my children there are so many things that are happening to me that I have just have to talk about."

Raised By Wolves interview: class, comedy & sex

An interview with the cast and writers of Raised By Wolves.

You're Back in the Room review

Tee hee. It's quite funny. For a while. But hardly original.

Raised by Wolves: "Genuinely funny and unusual"

This odd, Wolverhampton-set sitcom full of human eccentricity is the series Kasia Delgado always hoped Caitlin Moran would make...

Jeremy Hardy's show ends in violence over loud laugh

Women removed by police after trading blows when one complains about fellow audience member's enthusiastic reaction to star of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue in Burton.

Caitlin Moran talks Raised By Wolves

Caitlin Moran's new sitcom Raised By Wolves starts on Channel 4 tonight. She talks to Giggle Beats about the inception of the show, working-class sitcoms, revisiting her childhood for the programme and more.

Book deal for Luisa Omielan

Luisa Omielan has signed a book deal based on her breakout stand-up show What Would Beyoncé Do?

Pompidou: why the critics are wrong

Disappointing audiences and a critical bashing have made Pompidou look like a failure. But this difficult, admirable experiment deserves better.

Richard Curtis & Lenny Henry thank everyone at the BBC

"Without the BBC, we would have been a group of dodgy comedians wishing we could help a bit in 1985"

Nina Conti Clowning Around, BBC Four, review

Ventriloquist fails to 'find' her clown, reduced to 'tears of...'

Daniel Kitson calls for Battersea Arts Centre donations

Comedian Daniel Kitson has urged people to contribute to a Battersea Arts Centre rebuilding fund, following a major fire.

Interview: Caitlin Moran

Journalist, author and writer of sitcom Raised by Wolves takes our First & Last quiz.

Review - Stewart Lee: A Room With A Stew

The Comedy Vehicle comedian continues to intrigue, influence and irritate in wonderful measure.

Dylan Moran Live: Off the Hook - Salford review

Classifying Dylan Moran's style of humour is not easy.

Raised By Wolves review

Funny, graphic and a little bit brilliant in its portrayal of working class life.

Comic Relief 2015: least fun Red Nose Day I remember

I'm afraid it was one of those nights. Davina McCall is declared the Queen of Comic Relief, Dermot is anointed a "Comic Relief Legend" for staying upright for 24 hours and Lenny Henry walks on in front of a huge "Sir Lenny of Henry" backdrop - yet no one is allowed to say "Er, guys, it's not really about you."

Review: Raised by Wolves

Caitlin Moran's Channel 4 series makes for an enjoyable trip down memory lane.

Raised by Wolves: BBC One's loss is Channel 4's gain

There are times when we all need to eat humble pie and this is definitely one of them. After 2013's disappointing pilot I greeted the news that Caitlin and Caz Moran's sitcom Raised By Wolves was to be given a full series by Channel 4 with all the enthusiasm of Jeremy Clarkson being told the kitchen's closed. I was not hopeful. In fact I was downright cross. How wrong I was. The Moran sisters, alongside a storming cast, have created something brilliant.

Raised By Wolves - Everything you need to know

Channel 4's latest series based on the life of author Caitlin Moran, kicks off tonight so we've decided to put together a list of everything you could possibly need to know before you settle down to watch it.

Casting call for new roles in the 4 O'Clock Club

Emma Stafford Casting are casting on Series Five for the CBBC show the 4 O'Clock Club for new series regulars.

Raised by Wolves review: 'refreshingly honest'

Although every one-liner was a zinger, the first episode didn't build much narrative tension with Della troubleshooting every problem within minutes. But I'd put money on Della's feckless father to generate more complex storylines in future.

Raised by Wolves review: BBC's loss is Channel 4's gain

This is a show with enough panache and come-and-have-a-go boldness that, for those on board, it could get away with nearly anything.

Steve Day interview

Steve Day is the UK's most well-known deaf comedian, but his work spans far beyond that.

Raised by Wolves, Series One, Channel 4

For somebody who never seems to be short of things to say, journalist and author Caitlin Moran doesn't half like to repeat herself.

My date with Caitlin Moran on a coach around Wolves

Caitlin's main aim is to show us that Wolvo is not worthy of all the mocking it gets.

Oliver Chris bows out of Bluestone 42

Tonight's episode of the Afghanistan-set BBC Three comedy saw the introduction of Laura Aikman's ATO Ellen Best after Nick Medhurst lost his leg in an explosion.

Comedy review: Three Lions at the Liverpool Playhouse

Fun and football in the same package.

Ross Noble interview

People ask me all the time - "Is it not scary not knowing what's going to happen?" - and the way I look at it, is that's what's exciting in life. That's what I look for.

How not to adapt a British sitcom in America

For every successful American remake of a classic British comedy there is a handful of dreadful clangers that never make it beyond a pilot.

TV review: Raised By Wolves was a bloody mess

Caitlin Moran says the BBC turned down Raised By Wolves (C4) because they already had a "female" sitcom lined up. Maybe. Or maybe they said 'no' it because it wasn't very good. After watching it twice I think the Beeb's decision had little to do with the show's vagina ratio.