Back
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2017 - 2021
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Also features Penny Downie, Louise Brealey, Geoffrey McGivern, Jessica Gunning, Oliver Maltman and more.
Streaming rank this week: 1,958
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The best comedy is written in turbulent times
If, in 2017, you needed respite from our dire economic prospects, the whims of Donald Trump or the Damoclean sword of North Korea, you could find it on British television. Three of the year's best new shows - Pls Like, This Country and Back - were welcome proof that reports of the death of the sitcom have been greatly exaggerated.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 10th December 2017Euan Ferguson's best television of 2017
Includes Motherland, Car Share and W1A, while flops include The Nightly Show.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 10th December 2017Writers' Guild Awards 2018 shortlists
The shortlists for the Writers' Guild Of Great Britain Awards 2018 have been announced. Nominees include the writers of This Country, Back, Inside No. 9 and Sarah Kendall, John Finnemore and Kevin Eldon.
British Comedy Guide, 5th December 201750 best TV shows of 2017, #49: David Mitchell and Robert Webb reunited, parlaying their uptight loser/infuriating chancer shtick into a new personality-clash sitcom with hints of real menace at its core.
The Guardian, 30th November 2017Back: how Peep Show creators followed up their series
David Mitchell and Robert Webb on reuniting for a new comedy about death, failure and middle-aged men behaving badly.
Rolling Stone, 24th November 2017Back review
David Mitchell, Robert Webb, and writer Simon Blackwell are back with more caustic comedy, but the true joy of this show is imagining what happens next.
Steve Greene, IndieWire, 16th November 2017Channel 4 orders more of Mitchell & Webb's Back
Channel 4 has commissioned a new series of Mitchell & Webb sitcom Back. Series 2 will be filmed during Summer 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 15th November 2017TV Review: Back (Series 1)
In its first series, Back sets up a thread of events that are both ridiculous and dramatic and very boldly chooses not to wrap them up conclusively at the end, daringly suggesting a second series.
Charly L Cheron, The National Student, 13th October 2017Back review
Simon Blackwell's comedy about a suspected cuckoo in the nest was surprisingly touching without veering into sentimentality. Bring on series two.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 12th October 2017Preview - Back
David Mitchell and Robert Webb's new sitcom concludes tonight, with revelations presumably on offer.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 11th October 2017