British Comedy Guide

Dean Craig

  • Writer and director

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Karen Gillan is Mary Tudor in Fools from Outnumbered's Guy Jenkin

Karen Gillan is to star as Mary Tudor in Fools, a historic comedy film from Outnumbered co-creator Guy Jenkin, co-starring Patsy Ferran as her court jester, Jane Foole.

British Comedy Guide, 9th February 2024

Oh dear. It was already a very male show, but this week Dean Craig's campus comedy - a non-swearing, teenage Curb Your Enthusiasm mixed with The Inbetweeners - fumbles about in Porkies territory when Danny needs a subject for his Female Beauty photography project and lets Shane give him a few unethical tips. Still, it enables their misanthropic housemate Fred (James Buckley) to cruise past the clueless pair once more, and throws in an appealing romance to leaven the testosterone-fuelled horseplay. Next week's episode gets things back on track.

Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 24th September 2009

Being unrealistic doesn't stop Dean Craig's teen sitcom being a blast, and much of that's down to the comic timing of, and chemistry between, the leads. And although the cringe tips into misfire near the end, the naivety is largely likeable.

Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 17th September 2009

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