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Vic Reeves & Morgana Robinson star in sitcom podcast

Vic Reeves and Morgana Robinson are amongst the cast of a new sitcom podcast by Tony Pitts. Robinson will also star in the upcoming second series of Sky's Intelligence.

British Comedy Guide, 14th January 2021

This new abdication sitcom is a real coup for UKTV, having secured the writing services of British comedy royalty Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. After 25 years on the throne, good egg Henry IX floats the idea of stepping down, throwing his coterie into crisis. With an elegant cast - including Charles Edwards, Colin Salmon and Sally Phillips - exchanging dry lines in echoey state rooms, it feels like an eccentric UK cousin to The Young Pope.

Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 5th April 2017

Henry IX, UK Gold, review - 'return of sitcom classics'

Clement and La Frenais' latest sitcom is stuffed with gags.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 5th April 2017

Tracey Ullman's Show review

Ullman throws herself at it with gusto and it's iconoclastic enough to elicit gasps as well as giggles.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 3rd February 2017

Preview: Tracy Ullman's Show series 2

This week sees the return of Tracy Ullman's Show to BBC One, with the first episode airing on Friday 3rd February at 9:30pm. As with the first series, a bevy of TVO regulars are involved: this time around Dan Skinner, Tracy Ann Oberman, Lucy Montgomery and Laurence Rickard are part of the impressive ensemble cast. But is the end result worth a look? TVO editor Paul Holmes took a sneaky peek...

Paul Holmes, The Velvet Onion, 2nd February 2017

Charles Edwards to star in Henry IX

Charles Edwards is to take the lead role in Henry IX, a new sitcom created by Porridge writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

British Comedy Guide, 13th September 2016

Joanna Scanlan to star in C4 comedy No Offence

The cast for Paul Abbott's new police comedy, No Offence, has been revealed. Joanna Scanlan, Will Mellor, Alexandra Roach and Colin Salmon are amongst the stars.

British Comedy Guide, 1st August 2014

It's more The Inbetweeners than Grange Hill, except these four potty-mouthed, sex-mad teenagers are female. They're also oddly endearing.

This week, Viva - our conscientious heroine - inadvertently catches the eye of the dishy head boy. No sooner has he batted his eyelashes at her than another gang of girls are flicking their long blonde locks and flexing their fake fingernails (they'd be cheerleaders if this were an American high school drama).

Worse is in store for Saz when bullies steal her journal and post her deepest, darkest gripes on the school noticeboard. Look out for Colin Salmon as Viva's even dishier dad.

Claire Webb, Radio Times, 14th October 2013

That classic tale of an evening's babysitting fraught with mishaps gets an update, with Viva's mates keeping her company while she looks after a gravel-voiced devil child. Their night doubles as an end-of-Brandon party that Viva's arranged to help Amber get over her ex, and when a bottle of red wine and a sex toy are involved it can only end in disaster. Viva's not the only one with problems: her dad (Colin Salmon) is getting booty texts from a mystery admirer, Saz is being bullied by a group of bitchy girls, and Holli's worrying that the booze might run out.

Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 19th November 2012

Some Girls is basically a teen girls' take on The Inbetweeners, complete with profanity, banter, sex, swearing, violence and football. The setting, however, is no salubrious suburb but an inner city estate, lending a little more edge, as well as a more varied culturally mix, to proceedings.

The comedy is frequently broad and sometimes blunt, but the relationship between the quartet of friends is well observed and firmly rooted in recognisable, realistic emotions. I wasn't particularly taken by the show's use of voice-over narration, but I was extremely impressed by the narrator - Adelayo Adedayo, as Viva, is a real find. Colin Salmon, who recently waltzed off Strictly Come Dancing, plays Viva's firefighter dad.

Harry Venning, The Stage, 7th November 2012

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