Gavin & Stacey
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / BBC Three
- 2007 - 2019
- 21 episodes (3 series)
A critic-pleasing, gentle and warm comedy about the romance between an Essex lad and Welsh girl. Stars Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Alison Steadman and more.
- Due to return for The Finale
- Series 3, Episode 1 repeated at 11pm on W
Streaming rank this week: 603
Press clippings Page 6
Mrs. Brown's Boys and Gavin & Stacey win NTAs
Mrs. Brown's Boys won the Comedy prize at this year's National Television Awards, with Gavin & Stacey picking up a special Impact Award.
British Comedy Guide, 29th January 2020Gavin & Stacey biggest TV show outside sport & news
The Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special was watched by an audience of 18.5m, becoming the biggest TV programme outside of sporting and national events since records began in 2002.
BBC, 27th January 2020Gavin & Stacey could be denied award over homophobia
It was by far the most-watched TV show of last year and won widespread critical acclaim. But Gavin & Stacey could be denied a major broadcasting award after judges were warned that it was homophobic and 'problematic'.
Chris Hastings, Mail on Sunday, 26th January 2020Comedy.co.uk Awards 2019 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2019. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2020BBC defends controversial episode of Gavin & Stacey
The BBC has issued another statement defending the use of the word "faggot" in the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special, after it was revealed that the incident drew more than 800 complaints.
Roisin O'Connor, The Independent, 10th January 2020Gavin & Stacey most-watched TV comedy in 17 years
The Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s, new audience figures show.
BBC, 2nd January 2020Gavin & Stacey special 'has been watched for 80 years'
New figures have revealed that the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special has already been watched for the equivalent of more than eight decades on the BBC iPlayer.
Female First, 31st December 2019Gavin & Stacey could return for a full series
After the Christmas special becomes the most popular Christmas Day TV programme of the decade, a co-star has revealed that James Corden is keen to make Series 4.
The Guardian, 30th December 2019Larry Lamb says Gavin & Stacey must be turned into film
Larry Lamb, 72, has branded Gavin & Stacey a 'national treasure', calling for it to be turned into a film after the Christmas special drew 12.3 million viewers.
The Mirror, 29th December 2019Gavin & Stacey returned, 10 years since the last sighting of the two merged families from Barry in Wales and Billericay in Essex, created by James Corden and Ruth Jones. Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page), our cash-and-carry Romeo and Juliet, were fighting to keep their flame alive, while Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) hyperventilated about Christmas dinner timings, and Pam (Alison Steadman) fretted about staying in Wales: "I'm not using Gwen's towels - it's like drying yourself with Ryvita."
Perhaps mindful of his overbearing international fame, Corden kept his character, Smithy, embedded in the cast, juggling a hypercritical new girlfriend and a marriage proposal from Nessa (Jones). When the plot edged into saccharine, Nessa was on hand to punch us back to earth, at one point musing on the sexual chemistry between her and Smithy: "On paper, it doesn't add up. But put us between the sheets and it's electric. We're like Hall and Oates, Morecambe and Wise, Mel and Sue..." At which point, I think that mince pie started coming back up.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 29th December 2019