Alex Jennings
- English
- Actor
Press clippings
Your Christmas Or Mine 2 review
Sequel to culture-clash romcom has little to add.
Cath Clarke, The Guardian, 5th December 2023Your Christmas Or Mine? review
A young couple end up with each other's family for Christmas in a middling assortment of sitcom cliches and laboured farce.
Benjamin Lee, The Guardian, 2nd December 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
Given just how many dramas and comedies are set in hospitals, it's surprising that there hasn't been one quite like This Is Going To Hurt before.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
The BBC's take on NHS doctor Adam Kay's memoir pulls no punches in portraying the difficulties of life as a junior medic - be it fatigue, bullying or falling asleep at the wheel.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 8th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
Ben Whishaw shines as spiky but golden-hearted doctor Adam Kay.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 8th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt, BBC1, review
Ben Whishaw is perfect in Adam Kay's visceral, hilarious sensation.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 8th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt TV series completes filming
Filming has completed on This Is Going To Hurt, the BBC One comedy drama based on Adam Kay's book. Ben Whishaw stars, with Dame Harriet Walter, Ambika Mod, Michele Austin, Alex Jennings and Rory Fleck Byrne also on the cast list.
British Comedy Guide, 25th June 2021Maggie Smith is a marvel as Miss Shepherd, the eccentric elderly woman who parked her campervan in Alan Bennett's drive for a few weeks, and stayed for 15 years. Alex Jennings is a joy as Bennett, but this is Smith's film: her comically cantankerous exterior masking an inner sadness. There's fun, too, in the neighbours' perplexed reactions to her mucky presence. This small but big-hearted comic drama is a great alternative to the talking animations and blockbusters that fill the festive TV schedule.
Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 24th December 2016Radio Times review
Maggie Smith doesn't need to do chat shows, so she usually doesn't. The latest coup for Graham Norton is that he's persuaded Smith to grace a TV sofa for the first time in 42 years, to discuss her new film, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van - and to discuss the end of Downton Abbey, no doubt.
Alongside the Dame are her co-star Alex Jennings; Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, the two leads in new chef drama Burnt; and the ever-regal Cindy Crawford, who's 50 next year and has a coffee-table photo-memoir out. Justin Bieber more or less provides music.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 30th October 2015The first series of Alistair Beaton's Electric Ink, originally broadcast in 2009, gets a welcome airing on Radio 4 Extra, with Robert Lindsay as the curmudgeonly Maddox Bradley, an ageing broadsheet journalist with an aversion to the technological revolution bearing down on him like an unstoppable avalanche.
His editor (Alex Jennings) insists he should contribute a blog to the paper's website, and launch his own podcast. "You must embrace the digital age," Jennings orders him. Maddox replies, "Couldn't I just wave to it from the other side of the room?"
Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage, 12th August 2013