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Squeamish About... preview
In one of the few TV programmes that can be made in isolation, Matt Berry provides his peculiarly stressed voiceover to a patchwork of unrelated archive clips.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th August 2020Squeamish's top 10 entertainment shows from the past
Matt Berry returns to BBC Two tomorrow as rogue historian Michael Squeamish, about with four more surreal mockumentaries, starting with the history of British entertainment. By way of preview, the show's co-writer Arthur Mathews, below, offers this run-down of ten great entertainment shows from the past, done - of course - with the rigorous adherence to accuracy that the show is known for...
Arthur Mathews, Chortle, 5th August 2020Matt Berry to star in BBC Two series 'Squeamish About...'
Matt Berry is to host a BBC Two series called Squeamish About..., in which he will "shine a weird and wonderful light onto a different topic" each week.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd April 2020Top 20 British sitcoms of 21st century: Toast of London
Just after he appeared in The IT Crowd but before he started appearing in TV's What We Do In The Shadows, Matt Berry played jobbing actor Stephen Toast in this enjoyably zany Channel 4 sitcom written by Father Ted co-creator, Arthur Mathews and Berry himself.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 9th April 2020Top 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 2020Year of the Rabbit review
Matt Berry, Freddie Fox, and Susan Wokoma make for a fantastic central trio, as the raunchy detective comedy makes a stop in 1880s London.
Steve Greene, IndieWire, 19th February 2020Year Of The Rabbit Series 2 confirmed
Year Of The Rabbit, the Victorian-set comedy series starring Matt Berry, is to return to Channel 4 for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 11th February 2020The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
Steve Coogan is the funniest Brit, coming second on the list, with American Tina Fey coming first. Once again, in a mirroring of a Channel 4 poll in 2007, Stewart Lee came 41st.
Hannah J Davies, Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Brian Logan and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th September 2019Year Of The Rabbit writers plan Series 2
Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley - the writers of Year Of The Rabbit - say they have "sketched out" some ideas for Series 2, although it has yet to be commissioned.
British Comedy Guide, 16th July 2019DI Rabbit is at his rascally best as Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil's riotous Victorian police spoof finds him on the trail of a killer known as the Brick Man. At last we learn more about Keeley Hawes's mysterious character, who steps out of the shadows long enough to lure would-be "ladyfilth" Mabel into her orbit.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 17th June 2019