Motherland
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 2016 - 2022
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Comedy about middle-class parenthood and juggling kids, school, and other parents. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne and more.
Streaming rank this week: 517
Press clippings Page 15
Anna Maxwell-Martin interview
Anna Maxwell-Martin on showing off her comedy credentials by playing a harassed school run mum.
TV Times, 31st October 2017Anna Maxwell Martin on playing TV's most frazzled mum
The queen of period drama is casting off her bonnet and venturing into sitcom with Motherland. She talks about brutal parenting, competing with Cate Blanchett - and misbehaving on set.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 30th October 2017Diane Morgan: 'I want to play weirdos'
From Philomena Cunk to her anti-heroine in new comedy Motherland, the Bolton actor never plays it straight. Here, she talks children (spongers), sex scenes (ugh) and failure (works out in the end).
The Guardian, 28th October 2017Comedies nominated in Royal Television Society Awards 2017
Catastrophe, People Just Do Nothing and The Windsors are amongst the nominees for the Royal Television Society Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2017Fleabag, Alan Partridge and more up for BPG and TRIC awards
TV comedies including Fleabag, Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters and Mum have been nominated for more awards, as the Broadcasting Press Guild and Television And Radio Industries Club announce their shortlists.
British Comedy Guide, 20th February 2017Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 have been revealed. 60 shows are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title. Voting is now open.
British Comedy Guide, 16th January 2017The highlight of the BBC's 2016 sitcom season was the pilot for this comedy drama written by Graham Linehan, Holly Walsh and Sharon Horgan - a hysterically bleak portrait of modern parenthood that zipped by on a tidal wave of invention. Of course there's going to be a full series. Of course it's going to be brilliant.
Kate Abbott and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 7th January 2017Why 2016 has been a great year for women in comedy
From Fleabag and Catastrophe to My Dad Wrote a Porno, women have been having the last laugh, says Ellie Harrison.
Ellie Harrison, Radio Times, 30th December 2016Diane Morgan: 'Playing an idiot is easy'
Diane Morgan on Philomena Cunk, Motherland and being miserable.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 28th December 2016Top 40 TV Shows of 2016: #17 Motherland
Is this a sign 2016 wasn't a great year for comedy? The second highest-ranking sitcom in our list - if you even count Fleabag as a sitcom - was only a one-off pilot episode.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 26th December 2016