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.
- Due to return for Series 2
- Episode 4 repeated Tuesday at 8:30pm on ITV1
Streaming rank this week: 978
Press clippings Page 2
Changing 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 2023Changing Ends review
Alan Carr's childhood makes for relentlessly funny TV.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 1st June 2023TV review: Changing Ends
The feel good subtext here is just be what you want to be.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st June 2023Changing Ends on ITVX review
Alan Carr's presence is not really necessary for the show to work... but it is fun to have him along for the ride.
William Mata, Evening Standard, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
Changing Ends beams with warmth despite - or more likely because of - the endemic 1980s homophobia which forms its backdrop. Dropped into this world, like a naive alien, is a camp, buck-toothed, socially awkward child, misunderstood by almost everyone and ostracised by most of them.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2023Playing Alan Carr's dad was moving, says Shaun Dooley
Shaun Dooley says playing Alan Carr's dad Graham in a new sitcom about the comedian's life was "moving".
BBC, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
A laugh-out-loud autobiographical comedy with a lot of heart.
Morgan Cormack, Radio Times, 31st May 2023I talk to Alan Carr
"I wanted a show about just before reaching puberty, exploring how I was clearly giving off big bloody hints that I was gay, but didn't really know it."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 29th May 2023Alan Carr on divorce, dating and the skit that haunts him
He's the extrovert who used to pick on others for laughs. But after struggling in lockdown and a bruising separation, the comic insists he's grown up - and is happier than eve.
Charlotte Edwardes, The Guardian, 27th May 2023Changing Ends: Alan Carr 'jumped for joy' after casting younger self
Alan Carr says he "jumped for joy" after casting the actor who will play his younger self in a new sitcom about the comedian's life.
BBC, 23rd May 2023