Stuart Lane
- Writer and producer
Press clippings
The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin review
Dick Turpin's gone woke! He's now a non-violent vegan who prefers knitting to armed robbery, shuns toxic masculinity, and embraces diversity in his gang of previously ruthless outlaws.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st March 2024The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin review
Noel Fielding shines in unashamedly silly sitcom.
Jon O'Brien, Radio Times, 28th February 2024Hugh Bonneville to play villain in Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin comedy
Hugh Bonneville plays the villain in The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin, Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin comedy for Apple TV+, leading an all-star comedy cast that also includes Asim Chaudhry, Tamsin Greig and Mark Heap.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd August 2023Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin in Apple TV+ comedy
Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin in a new comedy about the "dandy highwayman" for Apple TV+.
British Comedy Guide, 12th April 2022Timewasters returns to the 1950s
ITV2's hit comedy Timewasters is to return to screens in 2019 with the black London jazz quartet transported to the 1950s.
British Comedy Guide, 8th August 2018Dan Clark-Neal co-creates new police sitcom Helmets
Dan Clark-Neal has co-created Helmets, a new mainstream TV sitcom in development. The script is being written by the team behind The Job Lot and Carters Get Rich.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2018In the Long Run, Sky 1 review
Idris Elba revisits 1980s Hackney with a deft comic touch.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 30th March 2018The Job Lot is a new sitcom that is bang-up-to-date, being set in a West Midlands job centre. It's written by Claire Downs, Ian Jarvis and Stuart Lane, and direct by Martin Dennis.
Sarah Hadland is Trish, the neurotic and passive-aggressive office manager, and Russell Tovey is her shy assistant Karl - like her, unlucky in love. Trish, a great fan of both the clipboard and the white board, tries to gee up her staff with feelgood workshops ("Turn the unemployed into the funemployed," she writes on the latter) and has to deal with the recalcitrant Angela - "I'll contact the union" - whom she once sacked but has been reinstated after a tribunal. Karl is bored out of his mind, dealing with clients such as Bryony (Sophie McShera from Downton Abbey doing a nice turn) who last night "caught" MS in her determination never to find work.
The quiet first episode of The Job Lot was overpopulated by misfits - a clean-freak, a moonlighting security guard, a dimwit jobseeker - but both the sit and the com have promise.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 30th April 2013