Dolly Wells
- 52 years old
- British
- Actor, writer and director
Press clippings
The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin review
I'm delighted to say it's an absolute hoot. A rip-roaringly silly absolute hoot.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd March 2024The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin review
The Mighty Boosh star brings his usual chaotic whimsy to this show about a would-be highwayman - but even a cast packed with comic geniuses can't remove the stench of "Will this do?"
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 1st March 2024The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin TV review
Noel Fielding's dandy highwayman is upstaged by a veritable who's who of British comedy talent.
Jay Richardson, The List, 1st March 2024The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin review
Noel Fielding in thin but enjoyably silly Apple TV+ comedy.
Angie Han, Hollywood Reporter, 1st March 2024Harry Enfield and Simon Farnaby to guest star in Here We Go
Series 2 of Here We Go starts on BBC One on Friday 2nd February. The six-part series will feature guest stars including Harry Enfield, Simon Farnaby, Sophie Wu, Dolly Wells and Andrew Brooke.
British Comedy Guide, 18th January 2024Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin series launches on Apple TV+ on 1st March
Apple TV+ has unveiled a first look at its upcoming comedy adventure series The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin, starring Noel Fielding. The six-part series launches on Friday 1st March.
British Comedy Guide, 17th January 2024Hugh Bonneville to play villain in Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin comedy
Hugh Bonneville plays the villain in The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin, Noel Fielding's Dick Turpin comedy for Apple TV+, leading an all-star comedy cast that also includes Asim Chaudhry, Tamsin Greig and Mark Heap.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd August 2023The Outlaws returning to BBC One for Series 3
The Outlaws is returning for a third series on BBC One, the corporation has confirmed. Creator Stephen Merchant says "we found there was so much meat still on the bone and still so much to do with the characters".
British Comedy Guide, 31st March 2023It's not every day you get to see Christopher Walken ambling about a community project in Bristol. What next: Joe Pesci chugging in Birmingham's Bullring? New BBC One six-part dramedy The Outlaws, starring, co-written and directed by Bristolian Stephen Merchant (The Office; Extras; Hello Ladies), certainly hasn't stinted on casting: Dolly Wells, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, with Claes Bang and Richard E Grant to come. The premise is that seven small-fry lawbreakers are thrown together to renovate a building as community service in Bristol. So far, so aged-up, earthbound Misfits. Rani, "studious Asian good girl" turned shoplifter, played by Rhianne Barreto, observes: "Everyone's a type: rightwing blowhard, leftwing militant, celebutante, shifty old timer." There's also Merchant as a dweeb solicitor, and Jessica Gunning as an officious overseer, who is inevitably reminiscent of Gareth from The Office, with an added soupçon of civic authority.
I'd wondered if Walken's Hollywood star power would swamp things, but in the overstuffed opener his rogue barely gets a look-in. While some jokes worked, others didn't: one about "working harder than a prostitute with two mattresses" was Jeremy Clarkson-worthy (and no, making it come out of Walken's mouth doesn't make it any funnier). When another (unconnected) sex worker theme pops up in the second episode (both are available), it starts feeling borderline creepy.
Merchant has forged his own path since working with Ricky Gervais, but in The Outlaws opener, too many genres are crudely bolted together: comedy, crime, heartwarming drama, a bizarre segue into gangland Top Boy territory. The second episode, though, is a significant (funnier, tighter) improvement. I'll be sticking around, not least for Walken's Transylvanian mini-break of a face incongruously bobbing around the Bristol environs.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 31st October 2021The Outlaws review
Christopher Walken does community service in slightly naff misfit comedy.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 25th October 2021