Julian Barratt
- 55 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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The Witchfinder cast revealed
BBC Two sitcom The Witchfinder starts on 8th March, with Jessica Hynes, Daniel Rigby and Reece Shearsmith amongst the cast joining lead actors Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper.
British Comedy Guide, 16th February 2022Filming starts on Series 2 of Bloods
Production is underway on the second series of Bloods, with Katherine Kelly and Nathan Foad joining the cast.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2021Bloods gets a second series
Bloods - the sitcom starring Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks - is returning to Sky for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 5th August 2021Sunday with Julian Barratt
The comedian usually settles for walking around Hampstead Heath, wearing clothes.
The Observer, 9th May 2021Bloods (Sky One) pairs Famalam's Samson Kayo with, bizarrely, Jane Horrocks, as a mismatched pair of paramedics. The opener has each of them struggling towards any kind of cultural rapport - he big and angry and avowedly from the 'hood, she librarian-kind and mousy and determinedly from the suburbs of somewhere northern. It somehow works as comedy, if of the sweeter rather than distinctly darker kind. Hugely helped by the outlying cast, particularly Lucy Motherland Punch as the boss with an unrequited crush on sad widower Julian Barratt. Who would (quite inexplicably) rather cry into his pint than jump her bones.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 9th May 2021Bloods review
For a show that features crack addicts, multi-vehicle pile-ups and a cardiac arrest, Bloods is surprisingly silly.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th May 2021Bloods review
Patchy paramedic comedy unlikely to split your sides.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 5th May 2021Bloods review
A magnificent paramedic comedy full of gallows humour.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 5th May 2021Bloods, Sky One, review
It was hard to laugh at this paramedic comedy - the medical emergencies felt too real.
Barbara Speed, i Newspaper, 5th May 2021Bloods, episode 1 review
Samson Kayo outshines Jane Horrocks in this odd-couple comedy.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 5th May 2021