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TV review: The Other One series 1 episode 1
How well you get on with The Other One will depend on your tolerance for cringe factor.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th June 2020TV preview: The Other One, BBC One
Whether by luck or judgement the BBC is on a roll at the moment with sitcoms featuring strong female casts.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd June 2020The Other One: funny, rude and piercingly sad
In this comedy of affairs and second wives, we see the family as I like to see it: generous, expansive, richly humane.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 3rd June 2020Alma's Not Normal: perfect antidote to our new normal
In one thirty-minute pilot Alma's Not Normal managed to set up a fully conceived world full of charm, laughs and fried spam.
Michael Lee, The Custard TV, 8th April 2020TV preview: Alma's Not Normal, BBC Two
Comedian Sophie Willan has been one of stand-up's most distinctive voices in recent years. Honest, outspoken and frank about her life, she has now has drawn on her history to write this one-off pilot. If the BBC does not commission a series it must need its head examined.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th April 2020Alma's Not Normal begins filming
Sophie Willan's upcoming New On Two sitcom pilot, Alma's Not Normal, has begun filming on location in Bolton.
British Comedy Guide, 13th February 2020The Other One bigamy comedy returns
Bigamy sitcom The Other One - about two very different mother-and-daughter pairs brought together when their one, single husband/father dies - has been commissioned for a full series on BBC Two.
British Comedy Guide, 30th April 2018In praise of Benidorm, the UK's most under-rated sitcom
It's a funny old game, comedy. Steve Pemberton's critical accolades for The League of Gentleman, and BBC2's late night cult hit, Inside No 9, are legion. But you'll be hard pressed to read glowing reviews of his eight years starring in the ITV comedy Benidorm. In fact you'll be hard pressed to read anything glowing from sniffy critics about the hit sitcom, despite its millions of viewers, longevity and viewer-voted National Television Awards. In fact, one critic went so far as to describe the viewing public a "disgrace" for voting for it.
Andrew Johnson, i Newspaper, 20th February 2018ITV 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 2018Written by sometime Sharon Horgan collaborator Holly Walsh, this sitcom pilot acts as a showcase for four brilliant, but often underserved, comic talents: Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Siobhan Finneran and Rebecca Front. The former two play sisters - one posh, one not - who only discover each other's existence after their father dies suddenly. Tension is inevitable, but it's nothing a Supertramp singalong won't soothe. Here's hoping for a full series.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 13th September 2017