Jordan Brookes won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2019 for I've Got Nothing, a show that was substantially improvised. But this show, Bleed, from 2018, is the show that should have won him the... more
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If you are feeling a bit bleak or fragile at the moment, Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story, may not be the thing to watch. It's one of those behind-the-grins documentaries about a comedian that... more
Apple TV+'s first British original comedy is an interesting one. It both plays it very safe, with its cosy thirtysomething Camden Town environment and also goes into some unusual territory as it... more
Mindy Kaling (The Office, The Mindy Project) takes on the teen experience in her new Netflix series Never Have I Ever. It's a classic coming of age tale: teenage girl wants to become cool... more
When you hear that two of the UK's finest actors, Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, are starring in a new series as crimebusting cops you kind of what to expect. Something hard and gritty, with plenty... more
#blackAF is the newest series from Kenya Barris, creator of Emmy-nominated Black-ish (and spin-offs Grown-ish and Mixed-ish). In #blackAF Barris stars as... more
This was never going to be as spectacular as your usual Comic Relief/Children In Need nights. Put together in record time with everyone filming in their home (or to be more precise for many of the... more
Warning: there are series spoilers in the review below.The second series of After Life starts with some gorgeous-looking scenes of British small town life played out to the melodic sound of The... more
The idea of a Red Dwarf film has been floating around for years and now they have finally done it. OK, The Promised Land is not getting a Star Wars-style major cinema release and in a way the show's... more
Well, they do say timing is everything in comedy. At the end of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast interview with Charlie Brooker Herring asked the Black Mirror writer what he was up... more
