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Women's sex lives in lockdown prove online comedy hit

Sex Lives, a show backed by BBC Studios using real-life stories and starring Aimee Lou Wood and Miriam Margolyes being adapted for TV.

Tara Conlan, The Guardian, 4th September 2020

TV review: No Offence

Paul Abbott's manic black-comedy police drama returned, but this opening episode was given over to tragedy, not laughs.

Carol Midgley, The Times, 14th September 2018

Review: No Offence returns and we couldn't be happier.

On a beautiful September's evening, I along with an audience of lucky people and cast members attended the premiere screening of the opening episode of No Offence series three and a cast Q&A (more on that this week)

Michael Lee, The Custard TV, 13th September 2018

Forget the cry-laugh: Inside No 9's creators perfected the vomit-laugh with an emetic twist in the season three episode The Riddle of the Sphinx. Pemberton's Cambridge don, after some already-nasty japes where a colleague (Shearsmith) forces him to eat flesh cut from the buttock of a just-murdered student (Alexandra Roach), is told that he is, in fact, her father. He's chewing his dead daughter's arse! Steve, Reece, get help. No, wait: finish season four. Then get help.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 8th August 2017

No Offence gets third series

Female-led police comedy drama No Offence has been recommissioned by Channel 4 for a third series.

British Comedy Guide, 6th July 2017

Inside No. 9 series 3 episode 3 review

Inside No. 9 series 3 pays homage to Sleuth in a delightfully nasty, slippery story themed around cryptic crosswords...

Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 1st March 2017

Inside No. 9 - 'The Riddle of the Sphinx' review

A young woman asks a favour of a cryptic crossword setter, beginning a chain of unexpected turns...

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 1st March 2017

Inside No. 9 review: a devious and outrageous puzzle

Clever, compelling and very, very dark, Inside No. 9's latest standalone story defined 'unpredictable'.

Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 28th February 2017

Paul Abbott's bawdy crime drama juggernaut rolls on and tensions are running high down at the Friday Street station. This week, there's division between Dinah (Elaine Cassidy), Joy (Alexandra Roach) and the boss who you wouldn't dare mess with, Deering (Joanna Scanlan). There's suspicion that the Attahs might be colluding with one of the team, and there's another case to crack when a dad reports his daughter missing and the search uncovers sinister online activity.

Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 25th January 2017

Why I love No Offence

Paul Abbott's police procedural series with guts, heart and a killer sense of humour is back on Channel 4 for round two. Mickey Noonan couldn't be more chuffed.

Mickey Noonan, Standard Issue, 10th January 2017

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