Gavin Mitchell
- Scottish
- Actor
Press clippings Page 2
Why Still Game will be sorely missed
Scotland's best-loved sitcom has bowed out. Here's how its hilarious blend of Glasgow banter and bunnets captured a nation.
Megan Wallace, The Guardian, 2nd April 2019Gavin Mitchell interview
The barman is anxious to see the fan's reaction to the final series when it's broadcast next Sunday.
Steve Hendry, Daily Record, 17th February 2019Still Game launches Final Farewell live show
The stars of Still Game have announced one final live stage show, to play at Glasgow's SSE Hydro arena, in Autumn 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd November 2018Still Game, series 8 episode 1 review
In the golden age of the sitcom, some shows were recorded in front of a studio audience and the others had canned laughter superimposed. The former now costs too much and the latter, in which producers decided where the laughs are placed in post-production, has long been thought too tacky. But there is a third way. When Still Game (BBC One) was recording its seventh series two years ago, an audience attended a screening and supplied the laughter track.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 8th March 2018Still Game Series 8 confirmed
The BBC has ordered Series 8 of Still Game. The creators say: "We can't wait to get started on the next batch of adventures with Jack and Victor. We have lots of surprises in store for you!"
British Comedy Guide, 16th March 2017Still Game 2 Live
Still Game Live 2 really is a brilliant follow-up to the 2014 success.
Mark Brown, The Herald, 12th February 2017Still Game Live 2: Bon Voyage review
Tellingly, you leave satisfied if this is to be Still Game's final live voyage, but keen to return if there are further productions still to come.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 6th February 2017Still Game: Live 2 Bon Voyage
When Jack and Victor take to the stage and insist that there will be less spectacular effects than at their first Hydro residency in 2014, you just know that the opposite will be true. So, when Navid, Isa, Winston, Boaby and Tam make their entrances, it's via increasingly daring stunts that have the adoring throng in raptures.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 6th February 2017Still Game: Live 2 review - hilarity ahoy
When does a sitcom get too big for its boots? It's a worry that must have crossed the minds of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill on returning to the hangar-like Hydro where, in 2014, Still Game played to 210,000 people in 21 nights.
There's something surreal about seeing the TV escapades of Jack and Victor in a venue where bouncers guard the stage and the audience needs two giant screens just to see what's happening. Undaunted, they've come back with a show of even greater ambition - and just as many laughs.
Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 5th February 2017Still Game Live 2 review
Showbiz is full of people going on journeys, most of them tedious. Not this one. Book your passage.
Steve Hendry, Daily Record, 4th February 2017