Katherine Parkinson
- 46 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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Top 20 British sitcoms of 21st century: The IT Crowd
Although patchy at first, The IT Crowd was a rare sitcom which steadily improved as it went on.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 27th March 2020Katherine Parkinson: interview
The IT Crowd actor on losing things, the lure of Shakespeare, and starring in a stage version of 70s sitcom The Good Life.
Michael Hogan, The Guardian, 1st March 2020The Good Life to become a stage show
Classic sitcom The Good Life is to be made into a new stage show, with Katherine Parkinson playing Barbara.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2020Katherine Parkinson lands roll in Good Life stage show
Jeremy Sams has written a play based on Esmonde and Larbey's work. He will direct a production that has so far cast Katherine Parkinson as Barbara Good.
Baz Bamigobye, Daily Mail, 3rd January 202012 Days of Christmas Specials 3: The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff
This all star Christmas special was a spin off of Radio 4 favourite, Bleak Expectations and it's a show that you need to add to your Christmas watch list!
Rhianna Evans, The Comedy Blog, 16th December 2019Defending The Guilty Series 2 confirmed
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Defending The Guilty, the legal-based sitcom starring Will Sharpe and Katherine Parkinson.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd October 2019This legal comedy is superb: laced with the right amounts of misanthropy and sentimentalism and unafraid of a textbook set-piece such as, tonight, a bungled speech. The relationship between Katherine Parkinson's barrister and Will Sharpe's bewildered pupil, meanwhile, is thawing nicely.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 8th October 2019Defending the Guilty: review
Though the plot is engaging, it feels as if it ends too quickly.
Jasna Mason, The Student Newspaper, 3rd October 2019The fate of the inept, self-obsessed barristers and their lowlife clients didn't seem to matter much when the six-part comedy Defending The Guilty started a couple of weeks ago.
Who cared which of the four trainees landed the coveted post in chambers? They were all as selfish and shallow as each other. But after three episodes, a more compelling story has started to take shape as shy student barrister Will (Will Sharpe), who wanders around in a millennial daydream with his headphones on, has accidentally fallen in love with a juror.
Katherine Parkinson is especially good as his needy pupil-master Caroline, ordering him to call her 'Mummy' and fetch her sticky pastries.
The show is based on the autobiography of a real-life legal trainee, Alex McBride, and although some of the incidents do feel too closely cribbed from real life, it is all shaping up to be much better than it originally seemed.
Worth a second look.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 2nd October 2019Caroline (Katherine Parkinson) and Will (Will Sharpe) viciously butt heads with Lady Justice once again, this time over the case of an elderly victim and an unrepentant thug. The real aggression, however, is reserved for the pupils' competition back at chambers. What new dirt has Danielle dug up on Pia?
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 1st October 2019