Ian Hyland

  • English
  • Journalist

Press clippings

Review: Queen Of Oz

Thanks to David Jason's The Royal Bodyguard, Queen Of Oz cannot be labelled the worst regal BBC sitcom ever made. It's a strong second though.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 22nd June 2023

Ricky Gervais's new comedy special is 'a flabby hour, so disjointed and meandering'

While I appreciate the motivation for his sermons on the intricacies of offence and the dangers of too much censorship, I sometimes wish he'd stick to the genuinely funny, less gratuitously offensive stuff.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 26th May 2022

This Is Going To Hurt was very eye-popping and I did really enjoy it

The combination of gallows humour and bloody gore is not the most shocking and disturbing thing about this series though. No, what really strikes you is that it is set in 2006, long before Brexit, Covid and our current Tory overlords began doing their stuff. I mean, if NHS staff and patients had it this tough back then...

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th February 2022

The Larkins review

Ian Hyland says ITV's The Larkins is not stuck in the past but has been revived to have a modern feel with plenty of diversity - that's the next five Sunday nights sorted.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th October 2021

Mortimer & Whitehouse: most uplifting half hour

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing was the most beautiful and uplifting half hour of the week.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 2nd September 2021

Review: Pursuit Of Love scattered with endless faults

I never thought I'd be thanking Marc Bolan for rescuing my Sunday night viewing. But that's what happened last weekend. I was dangerously close to hitting the urgent exit required button on BBC1's latest period drama, when Fleabag's hot priest Andrew Scott burst onto the screen dancing to T. Rex's overlooked classic Dandy In The Underworld.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 13th May 2021

Year Of The Rabbit is stupid, filthy and brilliant

It was gloriously stupid, tightly written, superbly acted and absolutely filthy.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th June 2019

Fleabag series 2 review

Snort-out-loud dark comedy that pulls no punches.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 5th March 2019

No room for improvement Inside No.9

When the triumphant return of The League Of Gentlemen just before Christmas was swiftly followed by last week's truly majestic episode of Inside No. 9, I thought Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton would never be able to top either. Then tonight's Inside No. 9 came along and I decided to give up the predictions game.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 9th January 2018

Motherland: one of the best comedies in the last decade

I cannot recommend it highly enough, thanks to its knuckle-chewing awkwardness and leftfield casting.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 14th November 2017