Famalam
- TV sketch show
- BBC Three / BBC One / BBC Two
- 2017 - 2020
- 14 episodes (3 series)
Sketch show starring new BAME talent. Stars Samson Kayo, Vivienne Acheampong, John MacMillan, Tom Moutchi, Gbemisola Ikumelo and more.
Press clippings
British comedies nominated for 2021 Rose d'Or Awards
Famalam, Motherland, Staged, Jerk, We Are Lady Parts, Horrible Histories, Taskmaster, A League Of Their Own and Joe Lycett's Got Your Back are amongst the nominees for the international Rose d'Or Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd November 2021Comedies in the running for Broadcast Digital Awards 2021
Nominees in the Broadcast Digital Awards 2021 include Brassic, Famalam, Meet The Richardsons, Scot Squad, The Emily Atack Show, The Young Offenders, Dating No Filter, Don't Hate The Playaz, Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Rob And Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Don't Hate The Playaz, Celebrity Juice and There's Something About Movies.
British Comedy Guide, 9th August 2021Putting the 'cape' into capers
The cape, not to be confused with its longer length kin, the cloak, is a versatile item of comedy clothing with a long and storied history. Depictions of cape-wearers go back as far as 300 BC to the nomadic Pazyryk culture of Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The blue, geometric designs of the capes characteristically worn by Aztek kings were made with intentionally laborious dyeing techniques to create a symbol akin to the difficulty in forging a great katana in feudal Japan. And most famously and popularly, the cape is a powerful symbol associated with 20th century superheroism. British comedy, perhaps unsurprisingly, has made use of the myriad cape tropes for its own hilarious ends, but not as frequently as one may imagine for such a popular device.
David E. J. A. Bennett, Capers Magazine, 4th May 2021BAFTA TV Awards 2021 nominations
Ghosts, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees in the BAFTA TV Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 28th April 2021Royal Television Society Awards 2021 nominations
Brassic, Sex Education, The Young Offenders, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sophie Willan, Ruth Jones, Youssef Kerkour, O-T Fagbenle and Paul Chahidi are amongst the nominees for the RTS Programme Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd March 2021Famalam rap becomes a real single
Drillogram first appeared in Series 3 of the BBC Three comedy, when a group of rappers showed up at an office to surprise one of the workers with a modern version of the singing telegram, as ordered by her boyfriend.
Chortle, 19th February 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2021Famalam nominated in 2020 Rose d'Or Awards
Famalam, Sex Education, Two Weeks To Live, Feel Good, This Way Up, There's Something About Movies and Agendum are nominated in the prestigious international Rose d'Or Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 12th November 2020Famalam: a sketch show defying gravity
Shilpa Ganatra examines why BBC Three sketch show Famalam, a huge hit on social media, is making big waves with its third series.
Shilpa Ganatra, Royal Television Society, 2nd September 2020Gbemisola Ikumelo interview
With her award-winning short set to become a BBC sitcom and an appearance in a big US sitcom on the way, the comedian is having a major year - and she's only getting started.
Micha Frazer-Carroll, The Guardian, 28th August 2020