David Allison

Caitlin Moran Review

ITV1's new comedy-drama, Boy Meets Girl, is really good. The premise of the show does hold the threat that it could, ultimately, sputter out in an orgy of man/woman huggin'n'learnin' - but so far, the prospects are good for a satisfyingly bumpy ending.

Caitlin Moran, The Times, 2nd May 2009

It couldn't matter less if a drama kicks off with an improbability at the outset, while viewers are still settling down and re-arranging the cushions. What matters is that everything follows on logically from there. David Allison's strangely fascinating comedy-drama begins with just such an improbability, as two people (Martin Freeman and Rachael Stirling) exchange bodies and lives after a freak accident involving an electricity pylon. The man is trapped inside a woman's body and is forced to wear high heels all day, write articles for a newspaper on fashion and gossip about other men over lunch. The woman has to slob around in a track suit, never tidying up, smoking roll-ups, eating junk food and behaving like a semi-housetrained Neanderthal. Both end up looking at the world afresh and not entirely liking what they see. It is nothing if not unusual - and for that alone it is worth watching.

David Chater, The Times, 1st May 2009

Boy Meets Girl - Part 1 Review

Sadly, beyond the base-level fun of seeing a man cope with a woman's lifestyle and body, there wasn't much about Boy Meets Girl to lure me into watching the next three episodes.

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 1st May 2009