Diane Morgan
- English
- Actor, writer, director and comedian
Press clippings Page 27
Even as TV's foremost black sky thinker, Charlie Brooker would probably have struggled to predict the turbulent, feverish and generally dispiriting events of 2016. Suffice to say that Brooker isn't short of material for this year's rewind. However, there'll be some light relief as Philomena Cunk goes head to head with grinning pop-rave professor physicist Brian Cox, and Diane Morgans media caricature gets a spin-off show immediately afterwards in Cunk On Christmas (10pm).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 29th December 2016Diane Morgan: 'Playing an idiot is easy'
Diane Morgan on Philomena Cunk, Motherland and being miserable.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 28th December 2016It's almost as if everything that has happened in 2016 has been leading up to this moment.
Once again Charlie Brooker is back with his unique look back at the year and this week he looks back on the ups and downs of 2016.
Helping Charlie to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena is Philomena Cunk. In her most challenging interview yet, Philomena tries to understand what it is Professor Brian Cox is actually saying.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 27th December 2016Screenwipe 2016: When is it, and how can I watch it?
Charlie Brooker's take on a year of news and television may be the most highly-anticipated yet.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 27th December 2016Top 40 TV Shows of 2016: #17 Motherland
Is this a sign 2016 wasn't a great year for comedy? The second highest-ranking sitcom in our list - if you even count Fleabag as a sitcom - was only a one-off pilot episode.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 26th December 2016Preview: Cunk on Christmas
It's material that could fall down in the hands of a less capable performer, and quite often, Morgan sells a punchline without saying a single word.
The Velvet Onion, 23rd December 2016Philomena Cunk on Christmas food
The other star of Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe casts her eye over festive food, from sprouts to rubbish advent calendar chocolate
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, The Guardian, 20th December 2016BBC Sitcom Season: review of the pilots
Some of comedy's hottest names have been busy working on new sitcom pilots for BBC iPlayer, airing in September, with the hope of these creative projects later being picked up for a television series.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 19th October 2016BBC Two orders a full series of Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a full series of Motherland, the sitcom co-written by Graham Linehan, Sharon Horgan, Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh.
British Comedy Guide, 6th October 2016Undoubted non-comedy of the week was We the Jury, an alleged piece of humour that actually ran out of ideas before the end of its pilot, which is going some. Did anyone at the BBC actually watch this before it aired? I ask in a spirit of genuine inquiry rather than nastiness, because they've just given me Motherland.
Purportedly a half-hour take on jury service, it featured cliched characters and surreal madness; almost never a winning mix. Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov is the only successful example. Written in 1859, it's only about three thousand times funnier and more interesting, and it was in Russian. Had We the Jury popped up on Radio 4 Extra at half-four in the morning - I'm always awake about then, musing on different lives - I would have had to put on slippers, race to the loo and swallow bleach. Again: did anyone watch this before it aired?
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 11th September 2016