Guy Jenkin
- English
- Writer, director and producer
Press clippings Page 3
Kate & Koji: Over 5 million viewers watch new ITV sitcom
Over 5 million viewers tuned in to Kate & Koji, ITV's new studio audience sitcom starring Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola.
British Comedy Guide, 19th March 2020Kate & Koji revels in outdated prejudice
The makers of Outnumbered have created a distasteful comedy about a cafe owner and an asylum seeker, that even the talent of Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola can't save.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 18th March 2020Kate & Koji review
Whisper it, but ITV could just have created that rarest of creatures - a mainstream sitcom that's constantly funny; deserving of critical praise as well as strong audiences.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th March 2020Katie & Koji doesn't shy away from the truth
Although from very different worlds, it's soon evident they share similar traits, including a dogged determination to never back down.
The Herald, 14th March 2020Brenda Blethyn in new Hamilton & Jenkin ITV sitcom
Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola will star in a new ITV sitcom from the writers of Drop The Dead Donkey.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2019Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's long-running Channel 4 comedy dwelt on the staff of GlobeLink News, constantly fending off the attentions of Gus Hedges (Robert Duncan), hatchet man for their (unseen) new owner, Sir Roysten Merchant.
Hedges, a management droid speaking exclusively in jargon, is determined to make GlobeLink more sensationalist and tabloid but embattled editor George Dent (Jeff Rawle) sticks to his guns. Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson brought a plausibly worn quality to their hack characters.
A brilliant satire on the commercialisation of news in the era of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell, Drop the Dead Donkey must surely have been an inspiration behind W1A (2014-) in its targeting of mind-boggling managerial interference.
Joe Sommerlad, The Independent, 6th September 2018Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin bring Election Spy to BBC Two
BBC Two is to broadcast Election Spy, a topical comedy series from Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd May 2017Outnumbered Christmas special review
Christmas is the season for catching up with old friends and so Boxing Day night seems an ideal time to entertain the Brockman family.
Ian McArdell, Cult Box, 26th December 2016BBC announces Outnumbered Christmas special
The BBC has confirmed that hit sitcom Outnumbered is to return for a new Christmas special.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2016With political reality increasingly stranger than fiction, it will be interesting to see where the final episode of Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's sporadically amusing referendum-based comedy takes us. Expect the Unity Unit to become increasingly desperate, Oleg to stop at nothing to get his way and Gerry to engage in a strange experiment with honesty. Which, in our post-truth political age, might be where the whole enterprise finally collapses into implausibility.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 6th July 2016