Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
Press clippings Page 7
Friday Night Dinner, review
This gentle sitcom should be required viewing for anti-Semitic trolls.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 5th May 2018Mum, BBC Two, series 2 finale review
Lesley Manville and co should quit their unimprovable sitcom while they are ahead.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 28th March 2018Still Game, series 8 episode 1 review
In the golden age of the sitcom, some shows were recorded in front of a studio audience and the others had canned laughter superimposed. The former now costs too much and the latter, in which producers decided where the laughs are placed in post-production, has long been thought too tacky. But there is a third way. When Still Game (BBC One) was recording its seventh series two years ago, an audience attended a screening and supplied the laughter track.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 8th March 2018Mum, BBC Two, series 2 review
Lesley Manville is a discreet delight.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 21st February 2018Hold the Sunset, BBC One, review - this is an ex-sitcom
John Cleese and Alison Steadman star in the exhumation of long-lost genre.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 18th February 2018Derry Girls, episode six review
Comedy makes room for tragedy with finale plea for love and tolerance.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 9th February 2018Laughter in the dark
Talk about laughter in the dark. With every successive episode, the fourth series of Inside No. 9 (BBC Two) has perceptibly turned a shade blacker.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 24th January 2018Derry Girls, episode three review
Derry Girls (Channel 4) feels like an indie antidote to the full-on populism of Mrs Brown's Boys.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 19th January 2018Eric, Ernie and Me, BBC Four review
The moving story of Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriter Eddie Braben, plus a gentle hour with Eric & Ernie's Home Movies.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 29th December 2017Bad Move review
At the moment it looks as if the script has sent away its knives for sharpening and not got them back yet. But Dee's miserablism is a gift that keeps on giving.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 21st September 2017