Warren
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2019
- 6 episodes (1 series)
BBC One sitcom about a grumpy driving instructor, starring Martin Clunes. Also features Lisa Millett, Tim Preston, Oscar Morgan, Neil Edmond and Martine Brown
Press clippings
Best and worst of TV: 2019
Hits include Fleabag, Derry Girls and Sex Education, while misses include Channel 4's Alternative Election Night and Warren.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 30th December 2019Clunes 'gutted' Warren was axed after just one series
Martin Clunes has revealed that he's gutted that the BBC axed his comedy Warren after just one series.
David Hollingsworth, What's On TV, 19th September 2019Clunes: Warren was axed because audience was too old
Martin Clunes believes that the BBC axed his latest sitcom because the audience was "too old" and "too blue-collar".
David Stephenson, The Daily Express, 23rd June 2019BBC decommissions Martin Clunes's Warren
Sitcom Warren, starring Martin Clunes, will not return for a second series, the BBC has confirmed.
British Comedy Guide, 20th May 2019TV review, Warren, BBC One
If you watch the right programmes - Derry Girls, Catastrophe - you could easily argue that we are going through a golden age of sitcom at the moment. On the other hand if you watch Warren, starring Martin Clunes as the perma-grumpy titular driving instructor, you might feel that the sitcom is fatally wounded.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th March 2019What were they thinking of with Warren? Poor Martin Clunes: after so much redemptively good work - Vanity Fair, Manhunt, even Doc Martin's a lovely rounded well-acted part - he has apparently chosen to star in a "comedy" that could have been written in 1974. About a grumpy driving instructor. And that's it, folks. No jokes, no clever lines, no acknowledgments that there's nothing inherently laugh-out-loud in just saying "garden centre" or "driving instructor", or indeed that time and tastes move on and all that's left is a talented actor staring at the camera with what's meant to be sardonic pith but might actually be howling existential angst.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 3rd March 2019Warren review
A star as miserable as Victor Meldrew? I don't believe it! Christopher Stevens enjoys Martin Clunes' performance as a tight-fisted, bullying driving instructor on BBC1's Warren.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 26th February 2019Warren review
Curmudgeons have forever been a cornerstone of comedy, but the problem with Martin Clunes's Warren - well, one of many problems - is that he's not just grumpy, he's just an unpleasant shit.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th February 2019Is it 1980, again? You could certainly be forgiven for thinking so on the evidence of this dire new sitcom from writer Jimmy Donny Cosgrove, which stars Martin Clunes as Warren, a permanently harassed driving instructor. The strangest comedy hors d'oeuvre for a new Alan Partridge show you will ever see.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 25th February 2019Warren, review: laughs are in short supply
This new comedy about a beleaguered driving instructor who moves up north lacked wit, empathy, and heart.
Sarah Hughes, i Newspaper, 25th February 2019