Doll & Em. Image shows from L to R: Doll (Dolly Wells), Em (Emily Mortimer)
Doll & Em

Doll & Em

  • TV sitcom
  • Sky Atlantic / Sky Living
  • 2014 - 2015
  • 12 episodes (2 series)

Sitcom in which English actress Emily Mortimer heads to Hollywood, closely followed by best friend Dolly Wells as her assistant. Stars Dolly Wells, Emily Mortimer, Jonathan Cake, Aaron Himelstein, Olivia Wilde and Evan Rachel Wood

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 6,442

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Emily Mortimer: 'I'm convinced I'm going to get fired'

Emily Mortimer, who sends up her Hollywood persona in the new TV comedy Doll & Em, on her beloved father John, life in America, and her very English insecurities.

Jane Mulkerrins, The Telegraph, 18th February 2014

Doll and Em: Friendship, family and film stars

It is fitting that Doll & Em originally started life as an excuse for two best friends to spend more time together.

Sarah Jane Griffiths, BBC News, 18th February 2014

Best mates Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells play fictionalised versions of themselves in the tale of an actor (Em) who invites her friend (Doll) to Hollywood as her personal assistant. With improvisation and shaky camera-work, the promise of glossiness that comes when Em walks the red carpet with Bradley Cooper is soon blown apart. It could so easily be a jolly tale, but immediately turns dark when Doll is locked out by the pool while Em has her hair done and the best-friend sniping kicks in. Promising.

Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 18th February 2014

Five reasons you should watch Sky Living's Doll & Em

Doll & Em, Sky Living's new comedy co-starring and co-written by Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, has already received widespread praise from critics.

Tim Liew, Metro, 18th February 2014

A comedy that you write and star in yourself sounds suspiciously like an ego trip - and in a sense that's exactly what Doll & Em is. Actress best mates Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells play fast and loose with the notion of friendship in a sharp relationship power trip that finds Wells (Some Girls) pitching up in LA after a romantic break-up and winding up working as PA to the more successful Mortimer (The Newsroom). It's a clever case of life imitating art, with appealing turns from both Mortimer and Wells mining laughs from what could be a very touchy subject.

Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 18th February 2014

Doll & Em on putting their friendship to a screen test

Best mates since they shared bathtimes, how will Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer get on sharing the screen?

E. Jane Dickson, Radio Times, 18th February 2014

Doll & Em, Sky Living, review

Sky Living's new comedy has such realistic, unselfconscious dialogue that it seems almost unscripted, says Florence Waters.

Florence Waters, The Telegraph, 18th February 2014

Dolly Wells on Doll & Em

Dolly Wells doesn't know it, but she's on the verge of becoming a real New Yorker.

Gina R Snape, The Velvet Onion, 18th February 2014

TV preview: Doll & Em

If Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells have any regrets in their lives, it's filming the pilot for their new series - minus hair styling and make-up.

The Yorkshire Post, 14th February 2014

Doll & Em preview

What begins almost as the pitch for a romantic comedy, complete with Doll and Em both falling for the same man, turns in a surprisingly different direction.

The Velvet Onion, 11th February 2014

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