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The week in TV: Changing Ends
Changing Ends clearly wants to avoid being angst-ridden, but there's a dark thread here involving historical homophobia towards a spirited, vulnerable boy that keeps wriggling through.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 4th June 2023Joe Lycett and Jordan Gray amongst LGBT+ change makers list
The Independent's Pride List of influential LGBT+ people in the UK sees Joe Lycett coming second and Jordan Gray third.
The Independent, 4th June 2023Alan Carr says Changing Ends is a 'love letter' to Northampton
From hoping to put Northampton on the map, to recalling found memories of "staggering down Welly Road", one of our most famous sons certainly still loves the town he grew up in.
Carly Odell, Northampton Chronicle, 2nd June 2023Changing Ends review
How Alan Carr went from bullied kid to Chatty Man. This sitcom takes us back to the 80s to Carr's adolescence - and the jokes sometimes sit uncomfortably alongside the bigotry he experienced.
Helen Brown, The Telegraph, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
Alan Carr's childhood makes for relentlessly funny TV.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 1st June 2023TV review: Changing Ends
The feel good subtext here is just be what you want to be.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st June 2023Changing Ends on ITVX review
Alan Carr's presence is not really necessary for the show to work... but it is fun to have him along for the ride.
William Mata, Evening Standard, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
Changing Ends beams with warmth despite - or more likely because of - the endemic 1980s homophobia which forms its backdrop. Dropped into this world, like a naive alien, is a camp, buck-toothed, socially awkward child, misunderstood by almost everyone and ostracised by most of them.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
A laugh-out-loud autobiographical comedy with a lot of heart.
Morgan Cormack, Radio Times, 31st May 2023I talk to Alan Carr
"I wanted a show about just before reaching puberty, exploring how I was clearly giving off big bloody hints that I was gay, but didn't really know it."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 29th May 2023