Changing Ends
- TV sitcom
- ITVX
- 2023
- 6 episodes (1 series)
A semi-autobiographical sitcom about Alan Carr's life growing up in Northampton in the 1980s. Also features Oliver Savell, Shaun Dooley, Nancy Sullivan, Taylor Fay, Rourke Mooney and more.
- Episode 2 repeated at 8:30pm on ITV1
Streaming rank this week: 2,910
Press clippings
Changing Ends review
Alan Carr's sitcom deserves to be a hit.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 16th April 2024Changing Ends & Staged win I Talk Telly awards
Changing Ends has been voted Best New Comedy of 2023 by readers of television website I Talk Telly in its annual awards.
British Comedy Guide, 10th December 2023Broadcast Awards 2024 comedy nominees revealed
Black Ops, Changing Ends, Dreaming Whilst Black, Everyone Else Burns, Juice and The Change are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Awards 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 28th November 2023Alan Carr's sitcom Changing Ends to return for Series 2
ITV has confirmed that Changing Ends, the autobiographical comedy starring Alan Carr, is to return for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2023I Talk Telly Awards 2023 nominations announced
Black Ops, Changing Ends, Dreaming Whilst Black, Extraordinary, Juice, The Power Of Parker, Ruby Speaking and Significant Other are amongst the nominees in the I Talk Telly Awards 2023. Voting is now open.
British Comedy Guide, 11th November 2023Is comedy back in the ITV building?
ITV has a tricky relationship with sitcoms, doesn't it?
Rhys Edwards, Chortle, 25th September 2023Alan Carr pitches spoof spin-off gameshow for his sitcom Changing Ends
Alan Carr has pitched a spin-off ITV gameshow for his sitcom Changing Ends, Wig Or No Wig?!. The gay comic has also complained that he was once outed by a ouija board to his mother.
British Comedy Guide, 6th June 2023The week in TV: Changing Ends
Changing Ends clearly wants to avoid being angst-ridden, but there's a dark thread here involving historical homophobia towards a spirited, vulnerable boy that keeps wriggling through.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 4th June 2023Alan Carr says Changing Ends is a 'love letter' to Northampton
From hoping to put Northampton on the map, to recalling found memories of "staggering down Welly Road", one of our most famous sons certainly still loves the town he grew up in.
Carly Odell, Northampton Chronicle, 2nd June 2023Changing Ends review
How Alan Carr went from bullied kid to Chatty Man. This sitcom takes us back to the 80s to Carr's adolescence - and the jokes sometimes sit uncomfortably alongside the bigotry he experienced.
Helen Brown, The Telegraph, 1st June 2023