Bruce Dessau
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 223
TV 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: 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 2016TV preview: Are You Being Served?, BBC1
So let's face it, this does nothing new but does the old thing pretty well.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th August 2016TV review: Fleabag, BBC Three, Episode 6
I'm reluctant to review the final episode of Fleabag. I don't want to give anything away. All I should really say is that you should watch it. And if you haven't watched the first five episodes catch up immediately.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th August 2016Ten must see Edinburgh Fringe shows I still need to see
It must be a good Fringe, we are halfway through and my list of must-see shows is now longer than it was when I arrived. Here's a run down of shows I'm still determined to find the time to see. In, I should add, no particular order.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th August 2016Review: Fleabag, BBC Three, episode 5
It has taken me a while to get round to writing about the fifth episode of Fleabag. I don't know what the journalistic equivalent of being speechless is but that's how I felt after watching it. It's not quite the same as writer's block, it's just when you see something that is so visceral and powerful on a gut level as this it is hard to find the right way of expressing your response to it.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th August 2016Nish Kumar on political comedy
Nish Kumar talks to Bruce Dessau about performing political comedy in Edinburgh and how the Brexit vote gave him the runs.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 16th August 2016