Lois Chimimba
- Actor
Press clippings
Fern Brady & fellow comedians dominate The List magazine's Hot 100
Comedians dominate Scottish culture magazine The List's Hot 100 creative movers and shakers, with Fern Brady in the number 2 position, Marjolein Robertson at 3 and Kieran Hodgson at 9.
British Comedy Guide, 30th November 2023Still Up review
This is a chemistry-packed show about two friends who can't sleep, so phone chat through the night. The leads' charisma will pull you through to the final episodes - where things get really meaty.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 22nd September 2023Brennan Reece pilots BBC 3 comedy Step 9 about alcoholism recovery
Brennan Reece and actor Dawn Sievewright are piloting Step 9, an anarchic BBC Three comedy drama about "real, flawed people" in alcoholism recovery in Glasgow, with the pair writing and co-starring.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2023Antonia Thomas and Craig Roberts to star in Apple series Still Up
Still Up[/c], a new Apple TV+ comedy series about two insomniacs, will star Antonia Thomas and Craig Roberts.
British Comedy Guide, 26th October 2022BBC Scotland orders more The Farm and three more comedies
The BBC has ordered another 30 minute episode of The Farm for BBC One Scotland, plus another instalment of sketch show Stevens & McCarthy, and two new sitcoms, The Islelanders and Stunners, for iPlayer.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd June 2022Coma sitcom pilot Beep to air on the BBC this March
The BBC is piloting Beep, a tragi-comic sitcom about the family of a man in a long-term coma.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd March 2021Group: Addict comedy to be Scotland's Friends?
It is the new Scottish comedy billed as Scotland's answer to Friends, but with one significant difference - all the characters are addicts of some kind. New York-born writer and director Annie Griffin, creator of the hit Channel 4 series The Book Group, has joined forces with Scottish crime writer Denise Mina to create a show set at a weekly therapy session.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 11th January 2020Vulcan 7 review
Adrian Edmondson brings some laughs to what is otherwise a dull piece.
Tamarin Fountain, The Wee Review, 11th November 2018Vulcan 7 - King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Vulcan 7 is good, but it could have been a lot more than it is.
Tom Ralphs, The Reviews Hub, 6th November 2018Review: Vulcan 7, King's, Edinburgh, Three stars
An actor's life can go in many ways. Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer's co-written vehicle for themselves makes this abundantly clear in their portrayal of a couple of old luvs who left Rada at the same time and end up reluctantly reunited in Iceland on the set of the latest instalment of the hokey sci-fi franchise that gives the play its title.
Neil Cooper, The Herald, 6th November 2018