The Outlaws
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 2021 - 2022
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Stephen Merchant comedy drama following seven people serving community payback in Bristol. Also features Christopher Walken, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Eleanor Tomlinson and more.
- Due to return for Series 3
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The Outlaws, BBC1, review
Stephen Merchant's sitcom tries too hard not to be The Office.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 25th October 2021The Outlaws review
Star-studded Stephen Merchant series is Walken in a cringe comedy wonderland.
Harry Fletcher, Metro, 25th October 2021How Stephen Merchant took comedy to the dark side
Mix a hard-nosed businessman, a left-wing activist and a cocaine-fuelled social media star and you don't exactly have a foolproof-sounding recipe for friendship. But Stephen Merchant's latest TV series The Outlaws isn't quite what it seems. It features a group of disparate characters thrown together to complete community service.
Emma Saunders, BBC, 24th October 2021Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant interview
The Hollywood veteran and The Office writer tell Gabriel Tate how they ended up working together on BBC One's new comedy thriller.
Gabriel Tate, i Newspaper, 23rd October 2021Stephen Merchant: the big interview
On The Outlaws and unusual first meeting with Christopher Walker.
Kelly-Anne Taylor, Radio Times, 23rd October 2021Stephen Merchant interview
"I see The Outlaws as a suburban, low-rent western."
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 23rd October 2021Christopher Walken interview
He started out working with big cats before becoming Hollywood's go-to guy for menacing oddballs. He talks about The Deer Hunter, the perils of being a world-class dancer - and doing community service with Stephen Merchant.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 22nd October 2021I talk to Gamba Cole
"I was so grateful to Stephen (Merchant) for writing a character with so much colour and variety because sometimes, only the stereotypes play out. We've got many different types of people that look like me."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 22nd October 2021The Outlaws lorry plunges into Bristol harbour
A costume trailer for Stephen Merchant's TV series The Outlaws has plunged into a city centre harbour.
BBC, 21st October 2021Stephen Merchant interview
Stephen Merchant on The Outlaws and the funny side of community service.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st October 2021