Man Like Mobeen
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2025
- 24 episodes (5 series)
Sitcom starring Guz Khan as a man looking after his younger sister in Small Heath. Also features Duaa Karim, Tez Ilyas, Tolulope Ogunmefun, Perry Fitzpatrick, Mark Silcox and Art Malik
- Catch-up on Series 5, Episode 6
Streaming rank this week: 417
Press clippings Page 5
Guz Khan: interview
The creator of BBC3's comedy hit Man Like Mobeen, Guz Khan, talks class, culture and how life imitated art in a shocking way whilst filming the knife crime episode of his new series.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 8th February 2019Q&A with comedian and writer Guz Khan
'I'd like to own a time machine. I'd go back in history and speak to the right people'
Hester Lacey, The Financial Times, 25th January 2019I Talk Telly Award nominations published
Nominees for TV blog I Talk Telly's 2018 awards have been revealed, with the final series of ITV's Benidorm amongst those leading the running.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd November 2018BBC Three orders second Man Like Mobeen
Guz Khan's sitcom Man Like Mobeen is to return to BBC Three for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 5th September 2018TV and web comedies up for Broadcast Digital Awards 2018
Chewing Gum, In The Long Run, Man Like Mobeen, Roast Battle, The Young Offenders and This Country are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2018Are UK sitcoms too sentimental?
The current crop of British comedies are peppered with 'hugging and learning', but how far can convivial comedy go before it veers into sentimental mush.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 27th April 2018Man Like Mobeen: BBC comedy defies Muslim stereotypes
Comedy has the power to reflect or to challenge mainstream values. Laughing at difference or "otherness" can reinforce damaging social norms, while shared laughter at a flawed or failed system tends to work more subversively. The new BBC comedy, Man Like Mobeen, is a subversive comedy that implicitly challenges ways in which British Muslims have often been badly represented through lazy caricature and stereotyping - as in the terrorist, the submissive hijabi, or the interfering Auntie.
Sarah Ilott, The Conversation, 31st January 2018Guz Khan: 'Citizen Khan reminds me of On the Buses'
BBC's subversive new comedy avoids TV stereotypes and parodies racial profiling.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 9th January 2018Guz Khan on faith, family and packing in teaching
We spoke to Guz about faith, family, and why he was sick of marking homework.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 21st December 2017I talk to: Guz Khan
For years, Guz Khan was a school teacher but he's now a full-time comedian who after a successful pilot last year, has been given a full series of Man Like Mobeen on BBC Three.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 15th December 2017