Camille Ucan

The Birthday Girls interview

The newly-formed Birthday Girls are Camille Ucan, Beattie Edmondson and Rose Johnson.

Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 8th April 2013

Part of the 4Funnies season, this latest pilot appears to have a few things that could well make it into a series. For starters it's rather heart-warming, it's amusing, but the main reason Channel 4 will probably turn it a full series is because Ricky Gervais is executive producer (that's pretty much how PhoneShop got commissioned).

Created by stand-up David Earl, the title character, Brian Gittins, is a taxi driver working in a small, slightly oddball town. It's not every place that regularly has someone wearing only their underpants walking around hold a large bunch of balloons. The story follows his working life, in his taxi which keeps having constant faults, whether it is the horn activating whenever he turns the steering wheel, or the alarm going off when he walks about ten feet away from the vehicle.

The main plot concerns Brian's attempts, with help from his student daughter Lucy (Camille Ucan), to try and ask out his controller Cheryl (Ashley McGuire) out on a date. However, the funniest moments are when Brian is making his journeys with his passengers. For example there's the sequence when Brian has to deliver a woman in labour to a hospital, but because of the taxi's faults it keeps turning on the radio, leading to a chorus of "Rabbit" by Chas and Dave.

This pilot seems to have a little bit of everything. A bit of slapstick, a bit of romance, a bit of realism thrown in. Gittins has all the makings of a decent sitcom.

Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 10th December 2012

An interview with Lady Garden

Google "Lady Garden" and you'll be inundated with information on female pubic hair grooming, and an all-lady comedy group consisting of Hannah Dodd, Beattie Edmondson, Rose Johnson, Eleanor Thom, and Camille Ucan.

The Humourdor, 3rd August 2011