Press Clippings
The First Team review
Unlikely lads make this slow-burn sitcom not just for football fans.
Susannah Butter, Evening Standard, 28th May 2020TV preview - Comedians: Home Alone
Following E4's Remote Comedy From The Paddock the BBC launches with their own self-shot lockdown rapidfire sketch show. And on the basis of the first episodes - not that this is a competition - the BBC has the edge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2020Keith Lemon's lockdown TV
The Celebrity Juice host on his love for Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and the awkwardness of filming lockdown shows.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 28th May 2020Ncuti Gatwa on his experience of homelessness
Writing exclusively for The Big Issue, actor Ncuti Gatwa, star of Netflix hit Sex Education, recalls how he became one of the thousands hidden homeless and imagines how tough it would be to be sofa surfing during lockdown.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 28th May 2020The First Team writers interview
Damon Beesley and Iain Morris tell us all about new BBC sitcom The First Team, set behind the scenes of a top level football club...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 28th May 2020Celebrity Juice bosses in talks about show's future
Celebrity Juice bosses are said to be 'holding crunch talks' over the future of the ITV show after the departure of star Holly Willoughby.
Lisa McLoughlin, The Sun, 28th May 2020Billy Connolly reveals his deep embarrassment about sex
Sir Billy Connolly has opened up on how his taboo-busting routines about sex were inspired by his own "deep embarrassment" about his lack of knowledge as a teenager and his failure to get women to take him seriously.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 28th May 2020Stuart Goldsmith talks about his Infinite Sofa
Big stars, a big in-the-Zoom audience, plus an occasional naked weirdo. Stuart Goldsmith's Infinite Sofa is the lockdown show that might just run and run.
British Comedy Guide, 28th May 2020Ministry of Silly Walks comes to Berkshire village
The residents of a Berkshire village have been filmed re-enacting one of British comedy's most famous sketches.
Monty Python fan James Ruffell put up signs outside his house in Sonning informing people they were entering the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Silly Walks.
He filmed the results with a motion-controlled webcam and uploaded the subsequent silliness to Facebook.
BBC, 28th May 2020Iain Morris and Damon Beesley on The First Team
The duo that skewered lad culture with The Inbetweeners are back and want to show us that football is not all toxic masculinity.
Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 27th May 2020
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