Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
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TV preview: We the Jury, BBC2
As one would expect from Acaster there are some gloriously well-chosen lines of dialogue.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th September 2016Jason Manford writes and stars in Halloween chiller
Comedian Jason Manford has written a short film mixing laughs and scares.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd September 2016Review: Comedy Feeds - A Brief History Of Tim, iPlayer
One of the highlights of this latest series of BBC iPlayer comedies is Tim Renkow's short film clearly based on some of his real-life experiences.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd September 2016TV Review: Young Hyacinth
The always good and very versatile Kerry Howard is the star and it is basically Howard that makes this so watchable.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd September 2016TV preview: Young Hyacinth, BBC1
In some ways this is the most interesting of the current Landmark Sitcom Season reboots, in some ways it is the least interesting.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd September 2016TV preview: Goodnight Sweetheart, BBC1
Is it possible for a sitcom to be terrible and very funny at the same time? That's the feat that this one-off revival of Goodnight Sweetheart as part of the Landmark Sitcom Season seems to have pulled off. This time travel comedy always was an odd idea and the internal logic problems of the original run, which ended 17 years ago, still haven't been resolved. On the other hand there are plenty of laughs.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd September 2016TV preview: Our Ex-Wife, BBC2
Peep Show might be over but Robert Webb quickly returns to the sitcom fray in this one-off pilot as part of the Landmark Sitcom Season and there is plenty to enjoy here.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st September 2016TV preview: Till Death Us Do Part, BBC4
Are you ready for a cross between Festen and Mrs Brown's Boys? This is the weirdest contribution to the Landmark Sitcom Season yet. BBC4 has recreated a lost episode of the 1960s Alf Garnett sitcom Till Death Us Do Part using Johnny Speight's surviving script. And as they say on the internet, when you watch it your jaw will hit the floor.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st August 2016TV review: Home From Home, BBC2
If the Landmark Sitcom Season was planning to promote edgy modern comedy the wait is still on. Home From Home might not be as old hat as Are You Being Served?[/ but there is nothing very new about it.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th August 2016Edinburgh 2016 - the year that comedy got less funny?
2016 may well go down as the year that comedy got serious.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th August 2016