In The Long Run
- TV sitcom
- Sky One
- 2018 - 2020
- 19 episodes (3 series)
Semi-autobiographical comedy created by and starring Idris Elba, set in mid-1980s Hackney. Also features Bill Bailey, Madeline Appiah, Jimmy Akingbola, Kellie Shirley, Sammy Kamara and more.
- Series 2, Episode 1 repeated at 4pm on Sky Comedy
Streaming rank this week: 4,071
Press clippings Page 3
Idris Elba interview
"With comedy you can on the day come up with something really stupid and make the crew laugh that actually might work in the show. I love doing that."
Sam Haysom, Mashable, 30th March 2018In the Long Run, Sky 1 review
Idris Elba revisits 1980s Hackney with a deft comic touch.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 30th March 2018In the Long Run, review
In the Long Run is just too meek and mild to be anything more than a good soundtrack with pictures.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 30th March 2018Idris Elba interview
The Luther acting is teaming up with Bill Bailey for new Sky sitcom In the Long Run - but can they make the race relations of the 1980s funny?
Craig McLean, Radio Times, 29th March 2018In the Long Run review
One thing you should be able to guarantee for any programme set in the 1980s is a cracking soundtrack. And so it is with In The Long Run, the new comedy based on Idris Elba's childhood on a South London council estate.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th March 2018TV review: In The Long Run, Sky One
Some potentially interesting plotlines are set up in the first of six episodes. It'll be interesting to see how they play out.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th March 2018I talk to: Jimmy Akingbola
Now living in LA, Jimmy still makes time for the UK and his latest role is perhaps his most important to date. Here's what Jimmy said about working alongside Idris Elba in In The Long Run...
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 26th March 201860 seconds with Bill Bailey
The comedian, musician, actor and all-round Renaissance man, 54, on his TV show with Idris Elba, wanting to play a villain, and his love of ancient woodlands.
Keith Watson, Metro, 26th March 2018Idris Elba: Why I decided to write the new 'Only Fools'
"I grew up with the [classic] sitcoms, Only Fools And Horses, all those shows. And they are a formula. It's not just gag and gag and gag. There's some heart. You care about the characters. And when you're watching those shows, you feel like you're in their world."
Craig McLean, i Newspaper, 22nd March 2018Idris Elba on his new sitcom
'It puts a lens on racism and what it was like in the 80s'
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 20th March 2018