Press clippings

The Larkins review

The Larkins is nothing less than the murder of a national treasure.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 17th October 2022

Reggie Perrin returning to the BBC

Radio 4 is to air a two-part adaptation of David Nobbs' 1975 novel The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, with David Haig in the title role.

British Comedy Guide, 20th September 2022

Gold announces Dial M For Middlesbrough star cast

Gold has announced the stars for its third murder mystery comedy featuring Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson, Dial M For Middlesbrough. Jason Donovan and Joanna Page are amongst the cast.

British Comedy Guide, 9th September 2019

ITV to celebrate 10 series of Benidorm

ITV is to broadcast Benidorm: 10 Years On Holiday, a documentary celebrating its sitcom being on air for ten years. It has also released more details about Series 10.

British Comedy Guide, 16th January 2018

Early Man brings Brexit to the bronze age

The studio's latest stop-motion epic is a timely story about a stone age English tribe playing footie against sophisticated continentals.

Steve Rose, The Guardian, 14th January 2018

Johnny Vegas, Selina Griffiths, Elsie Kelly interviews

Sadly, this is the last series (for now) that will see all three of the Maltby's.

Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 12th April 2017

Voice cast announced for Early Man, as trailer released

Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, Johnny Vegas and Gina Yashere have been revealed as amongst the voice cast for new Aardman Animations film Early Man, as the trailer is released.

British Comedy Guide, 16th March 2017

Benidorm Series 10 confirmed

ITV has ordered a 10th series of holiday comedy Benidorm, making it one of Britain's longest running sitcoms. Filming starts later this month, for broadcast in 2018.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd March 2017

Elsie Kelly & Selina Griffiths interview

An interview with Elsie Kelly, who plays Noreen, and Selina Griffiths, who plays Pauline.

Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 16th January 2016

Unfortunate title aside, Psychobitches is a wonderfully original idea - what if famous women through the centuries were alive today and seeking treatment from a psychotherapist? In a quasi-sketch format using the talents of 10 credited writers, it's a neat construct that allows writers' imaginations free rein, unconstrained by time, place or actual facts, and gives a roll call of talented actresses (and the occasional bloke) a chance to do their very best impersonations.

Last night's opener of a five-part series (expertly directed by The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson) started with Rosa Parks, not on the couch but "here for my appointment" in a glorious blink-and-you'll miss-it sight gag, where all the other women in the waiting room jumped up to offer her their seat. Actually being therapised, as it were, in the Sigmund Freud-style office, were (among others) an irritatingly winsome Audrey Hepburn (Sam Spiro), a grandiose Eva Peron (Sharon Horgan) and a self-obsessed Sylvia Plath (Julia Davis).

Plath was trying out a new writing persona in which she donned her grandmother's dress and wig and morphed into Pam Ayres - "I wish I'd looked after me toes/ Not treated them like they were foes" - one of many moments in this half-hour when I laughed out loud. It was an inspired gag. Equally good were the scenes involving the bickering Brontë sisters; Anne (Sarah Solemani) was meek but knowing, while Charlotte (Selina Griffiths) was withering about Emily (Katy Brand) needing to lose her virginity, or, as she put it in her broad Yorkshire vowels, "She should fuck off to Keighley on a Friday night and lose it to a cowhand and do us all a fucking favour."

Among the mix was Mark Gatiss and Frances Barber hamming it up marvellously as Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, in full What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? mode, endlessly outdoing each other in the meanness stakes, while Rebecca Front's therapist - an unshowy part that could easily go unnoticed in this parade of misfits - was nicely pitched. There was the occasional miss, but overall this was a joy.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st May 2013