Claire Keelan
- Actor
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Daddy Issues cast confirmed
The cast joining Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey in new BBC Three comedy series Daddy Issues include Sarah Hadland, Sherrie Hewson and Humphrey Ker.
British Comedy Guide, 26th February 2024Nathan Barley: the British comedy that foresaw the future of culture
Nathan Barley depicts the self-absorption of East London, where vapid hipsters and narcissistic media online personalities run amok amid a new age of journalism.
Thomas Leatham, Far Out, 5th February 2024The Family Pile axed by ITV after one series
ITV has said there are no plans for a second series of The Family Pile, its sitcom about four sisters who are packing up the family home to sell after their parents have died.
British Comedy Guide, 21st April 2023The Family Pile review
There's so much good, dramatic material here. Why it's shoehorned into a sitcom is anyone's guess.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 18th January 2023The Family Pile review
Warm and sometimes funny, but lacking in sparkle.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 18th January 2023The Family Pile review
Congratulations to ITV for inventing the joke-free sitcom.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 17th January 2023ITV confirms new comedy details
ITV has confirmed details about and casting for its five new comedy series, coming to ITVX and ITV in the next year.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2022The re-evaluation game: Nathan Barley
If you want to remain having fond memories of the show it's probably best if you only watch the first four episodes.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 2nd March 2020Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's prophetic Channel 4 sitcom skewered east London hipster culture to a tee through its odious protagonist, a self-proclaimed "self-facilitating media node" and purveyor of witless viral videos via his website TrashBat.co.ck (registered in the Cook Islands).
But the show's true concern was the plight of depressed journalist Dan Ashcroft (Julian Barrett), surviving unhappily in the offices of Sugar Ape, too ill-motivated and sickened by the buffoons around him to better himself. His article "Rise of the Idiots", in which he takes his tormentors to task, only makes matters worse, proving a hit and seeing him hailed as "Preacher Man" by the same fools he sought to destroy.
His sister Claire (Claire Keelan), an aspiring and idealistic documentarian, is similarly thwarted by Barley and his kind.
Ashcroft's failed interview at The Sunday Times, where he humiliates himself by stating a preference for "Dutch wine", is excruciating and made worse by his having to return contrite to Hosegate to retract his resignation from Charlie Condou's withering editor, Jonathan Yeah? (the question mark added by deed poll), who gloats deliciously.
Joe Sommerlad, The Independent, 6th September 2018Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan are comedians of sufficient calibre that this series, in which they play versions of themselves on a restaurant-reviewing tour of the Lake District, was always likely to be funny. Four episodes in, it is revealing depth too. They eat at Hipping Hall in Lancashire, where they are joined by Coogan's assistant Emma (Claire Keelan) and a Spanish photographer, Yolanda (Marta Barrio). Coogan and Brydon revive the battle of celebrity impressions they fought in the first episode, amid increasing sexual tensions. "Is there a condition in Spain of Autistic Impressionist?" Coogan asks Yolanda, of Brydon. Brydon responds by quoting Alan Partridge at Coogan. "I'd quote your own stuff back at you," replies Coogan. "But I can't remember any of it."
The Telegraph, 19th November 2010