© BBC Young Hyacinth
02/09/2016 … None of the comedies being revisited for the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom really work without knowing the context in which the show is being revived – but Young Hyacinth…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 02 September 2016
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© BBC Goodnight Sweetheart
02/09/2016 … There’s a great line in the revived Goodnight Sweetheart, when Nicholas Lyndhurst’s time-travelling bigamist Gary Sparrow is described as ‘a two-timing bastard…
Thu 01 September 2016
© BBC/Angus Young Our Ex Wife
01/09/2016 … For a while there was the concept that sitcom characters had to be sympathetic and relatable.
© BBC/Alan Peebles Til Death Us Do Part
01/09/2016 … Tightened budgets are cutting deep at the BBC.
Wed 31 August 2016
Amy Schumer
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Edinburgh Playhouse
31/08/2016 … Amy Schumer comes to the UK on a career high, but she doesn’t think her time in the spotlight will last much longer; not feeling or acting like a normal…
Tue 30 August 2016
© BBC Home From Home
30/08/2016 … The latest pilot in the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom series, Home From Home is a warm, gentle affair, much down to the likeability of Johnny Vegas as a hapless…
Mon 29 August 2016
© BBC TV review: Meet The Coopers
29/08/2016 … Meet The Coopers could be pitched in five words: ‘Outnumbered - but with adopted kids’.
Sun 28 August 2016
© BBC/Scott Kershaw Porridge
28/08/2016 … The announcement that Porridge was to be rebooted was greeted with almost universal cynicism.