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TV preview: Upstart Crow, Series Three, BBC2
David Mitchell returns as aspiring playwright/superstar William Shakespeare in Ben Elton's return-to-form sitcom. I say return-to-form with a couple of caveats.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th August 2018Upstart Crow, series 3 episode 1 review
An astute way to reinvent our love for toilet humour.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 29th August 2018David Mitchell and Ben Elton quiz each other
A new series of Upstart Crow, starring David Mitchell as Shakespeare and written by Ben Elton, begins this week. They talk life, love and drinking too much.
Ben Elton & David Mitchell, The Guardian, 26th August 2018David Mitchell interview
'This is what I imagined TV would be like before I worked in it'.
Belfast Telegraph, 25th August 2018David Mitchell: 'I stay away from edgier jokes now'
David Mitchell can pinpoint the moment when Britain's sense of humour changed. In 2008, Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left a series of lewd messages on the answerphone of the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs which included, among other things, comments about Brand's relationship with Sachs's granddaughter. Questions were asked in Parliament.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 24th August 2018Would I Lie To You? stars to tour live show
Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell - who star together on BBC panel show Would I Lie To You? are to tour the UK in 2019 with a live show called Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - In Your Town.
British Comedy Guide, 25th July 2018Upstart Crow Series 3 guest stars announced
The BBC has announced Upstart Crow's guest stars for the upcoming third series, including Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Kenneth Branagh and Lily Cole.
British Comedy Guide, 25th January 2018The 20 best TV comedies of 2017
Here - in no particular order - are the 20 best shows from 2017.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 11th December 2017The enduringly likable panel show trundles cheerfully on. This week's guests for the good-natured fib-fest are Stephen Mangan, Mark Bonnar, Sheila Hancock and Anita Rani but, as ever, the show truly hits its stride when Lee Mack and David Mitchell lock horns and engage their counterintuitive comic chemistry. There are vanishingly few things we can rely on in today's bewildering world but it seems this programme is one of them.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 27th November 2017The week in TV: Would I Lie to You?; Sick Note
At some points it felt as though Ed Balls had merely exchanged one bear pit for another; at others it bordered on poignant.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 26th November 2017