Daniel Peak
- Writer and producer
Press clippings
Not Going Out, 100th episode review
A hundred episodes is quite some achievement for any UK sitcom. But it also means Lee Mack's remarkably long-lived Not Going Out has come to feel like part of the furniture rather than appointment-to-view TV.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th December 2023Code 404 Series 3 confirmed by Sky
Sky has confirmed that cop sitcom Code 404 will return for a third series.
British Comedy Guide, 4th November 2021Code 404 set to return for Series 3
Work has begun on a third series of Code 404. Further episodes of the hit Sky Comedy cop sitcom, which stars Daniel Mays as a detective brought back to life as an AI experiment, and Stephen Graham as his long-suffering partner, have already been written BCG understands.
British Comedy Guide, 1st September 2021Code 404 to return for Series 2
Sky has ordered a second series of Code 404, its new sitcom starring Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays and Anna Maxwell Martin.
British Comedy Guide, 15th May 2020Line of Duty alumni, Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, star in the comedy-drama Code 404, written by Daniel Peak, directed by Al Campbell. They play detective partners, one of whom, John Major (Mays) was killed in action, but then resurrected by artificial intelligence. It emerges that not only has DI Roy Carver (Graham) been involved with Major's wife (Anna Maxwell Martin), but now, if his revitalised partner makes too many mistakes, he can be "switched off".
As these are the kinds of roles that Mays and Graham excel in playing straight, it took a while to adjust my perceptions. It was delivered as a classic funny/straight double act, with May hurling himself into the comedy and Graham anxiously trying to contain the fallout. While Code 404 didn't always hit the mark in this opener, the energy and enthusiasm were infectious, and with this level of talent on board I will be sticking with it.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 3rd May 2020Code 404 review
As with the bungling DI John Major himself, this comedy only just about works.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 30th April 2020Code 404 review
About halfway through the first episode of Code 404, a six-part cop comedy starring Daniel Mays and Stephen Graham, something strange happened. It became almost unbearably bad. I say strange because up until this hazily defined point - perhaps it was the scene involving a big suitcase and a small locker - Code 404 had been a revelation.
Rupert Hawksley, i Newspaper, 30th April 2020Code 404 review
This is an original comedy from Sky and possibly their best one, thanks to the cast. The joy is that in another universe this could have been a po-faced drama, and the three leads are sending themselves up.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 30th April 2020Code 404 review
Code 404's humour is wacky and wonderful and In these troubled times it presses all the right buttons.
Markie Robson-Scott, The Arts Desk, 30th April 2020Code 404 review
The comedy is pretty broad at times, but what Code 404 lacks in subtlety it makes up for in laughs.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th April 2020