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Ellie & Natasia review: fiercely funny
A fiercely funny sketch show you'll watch over and over. This BBC Three comedy from Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou is full of feminist fury and gloriously daft gags. But there's only one episode so far. Can we have some more please?
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 19th June 2019A guide to making the perfect pop parody
Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou, whose new sketch show features their take on Ariana Grande, offer up some crucial advice.
Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 18th June 2019Review: Ellie & Natasia
This is a one-off, but if they can both find the time between other jobs and a few more new ideas this could be a series. There is certainly no shortage of comic talent on display.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th June 2019Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White interview
As their new comedy pilot Ellie & Natasia comes to BBC Three, the best friends tell Sarah Carson why we can't let the sketch show die out.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 10th June 2019Ellie & Natasia review
Sketch shows might have fallen out of favour with broadcasters, but Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou prove there's plenty of life in the format yet with this ridiculously bonkers offering.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th June 2019Fresh from her joyously vampy turn in What We Do In The Shadows, Natasia Demetriou reunites with Year Friends pal Ellie White for this inventive, silly sketch show, featuring mummy bloggers, eastern European nail technicians and one sketch so sinister it puts David Lynch to shame.
The Guardian, 7th June 2019Review: Why ITV2's Timewasters is worth your time.
With the ability to transport its characters to any time in the past or future, Timewasters has endless possibilities, and its black central cast allows for a new, interesting spin on the time travel genre.
Luke, The Custard TV, 11th March 2019The comics that sum up 2019
There's an unorthodox new generation of performers on the horizon.
Hannah J Davies and Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 19th January 2019TV: Semi-Detached, BBC2
After his foray into live sitcom with Not Going Out just before Christmas Lee Mack is back in sitcomland with this all-star fast-paced one-off pilot in which the twist is that everything happens in real time.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2019Semi-Detached review
The first sitcom pilot of the year stars Lee Mack in this real-time story set over one man's terrible half-hour (although the pilot's only 20 minutes long).
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 6th January 2019