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Hang Ups episode 1 review
With a strong core cast, an impressive roster of guest stars and an interesting style unlike anything else on British television, Hang Ups is an enjoyable watch.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 9th August 2018Hang Ups review
Mangan stars in a remake of Lisa Kudrow's Web Therapy and manages the rarest of TV feats: a UK adaptation that's every bit as good as the US original.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 8th August 20188 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown review
A champagne-fuelled joy.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 13th July 2018Spaced​ revisited: looking back at a cult classic
It may have been released nearly two decades ago now, but Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson's sitcom Spaced remains as hilarious and comforting as it ever was. The show is one of the great modern sitcoms and was the launching pad not only for Pegg, Stevenson and the rest of the cast, but also for director Edgar Wright.
Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 12th July 2018TV: 8 Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown All-Female Edition
Never mind coming a long way since women got the vote, we've come a long way since a few years ago when women were seen as token females on quiz shows and TV decided that a woman should be on every panel.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th July 2018BBC Four comedy drama to focus on learning disabilities
David Tennant and Jessica Hynes are to take the lead roles in a new comedy drama about a family with a severely learning-disabled daughter.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018All-star cast announced for Channel 4's Hang Ups
Hang Ups, a new sitcom on Channel 4, will see a cast list including Richard E. Grant, Jessica Hynes, David Tennant, Charles Dance, Katherine Parkinson and Celia Imrie join Stephen Mangan.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd October 2017W1A, episode 3 review
Three series in, this one-time funny sitcom is just irritating.
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph, 2nd October 2017It was a genuine delight to hear, once more, the strains of the Animal Magic theme as W1A returned for a third series. One of the joys of watch-again is that, in addition to the more garish tropes to which we're now used - the folding bikes, Monica Dolan's perpetual Welsh whining, Jessica Hynes's PR gorgon - one can find, in almost every 30 seconds, unlooked-for subtleties. David Westhead as Neil Reid, the one-man Greek chorus whose muttered "bollocks" says, in sadly splendid isolation, what we're all thinking, and the more hidden verbal tics from deadpan narrator David Tennant: "the department for culture, media and also for some reason sport"... "assistant of some sort Will Humphries".
Incidentally, did you notice Dolan in Strike, playing the wrongly jailed wife? True skills, to turn from blistering darkness to high comedy over two nights. W1A continues to draw flak, roundly undeserved: too BBC-smug, too London, too hugging of itself, too versed in PR knowingness, too not-Brexit. I revere it as a brave commission, and a gleeful and celebratory use of most of the best comedy actors and improvisers of the last decade, surely a golden age, and long may it continue: at least until a massive backdrop of caustic creator John Morton appears on one of the walls, at which point the BBC can officially be proved to have eaten itself.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 24th September 2017W1A: Why this final series might be the best yet.
I'm just a little upset that this is the final series as, from what I've seen, W1A is arguably the BBC funniest comedy that's currently on screen and I'm just wondering if the reason its leaving the screens is because of Morton's ability to spoof the company that's actually in charge of recommissioning his brilliant sitcom.
Matt, The Custard TV, 19th September 2017