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Greg Davies opens up about painful year
TV star Greg Davies has told of his painful year after both his father and the man who played his on-screen dad - Rik Mayall - died.
Danny Walker, The Mirror, 26th May 2015Greg Davies: 'Rik Mayall was still a force of nature.'
The Man Down star and comedian has had a hard year, with both the death of his father and onscreen dad Rik Mayall and a breakup with Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 20th May 2015Liz Kendall MP's relationship with Greg Davies is over
Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall has revealed she split with Inbetweeners star Greg Davies a few weeks before the General Election.
She had been with the actor - famous for playing head teacher Mr Gilbert in the comedy series - for several years before the break up.
43-year-old Kendall announced she was running for the Labour party leadership last week and has emerged as a dark horse to take over from Ed Miliband.
Jay Akbar, Daily Mail, 16th May 2015Cuckoo returns for Series 3
BBC Three's Cuckoo is to return to screens for a third series. Greg Davies, Taylor Lautner and Helen Baxendale will all reprise their roles.
British Comedy Guide, 15th May 2015Line-up revealed for new Greg Davies show Taskmaster
Taskmaster, the new comedy show for channel Dave starring Greg Davies and Alex Horne, will feature guests including Frank Skinner and Tim Key.
British Comedy Guide, 10th February 2015TV comedy editor Charlie Phillips dies
Renowned comedy editor Charlie Phillips has died. Phillips worked on a huge number of critically-acclaimed comedy shows including series one of Greg Davies sitcom Man Down, Him and Her, Psychobitches, Rev., Saxondale, Psychoville, Monkey Trousers, The Thin Blue Line, and Vic and Bob's Shooting Stars and Catterick.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 6th February 2015Radio Times review
The Lichfield love triangle is finally resolved in this delightfully silly special: Rachel is struggling to choose between nice-but-dull boyfriend Ben and the hunky-but-bonkers American who just happens to be the son of her late husband. As always, the real reason to tune in is Greg Davies who plays curmudgeonly dad Ken and inevitably ends up in a Santa Claus suit cussing wide-eyed children.
Meanwhile, Mum - a trilling Helen Baxendale - jumps to the wrong conclusion after suffering a fainting fit. Hang in there for the musical interlude crooned by Outnumbered veteran Tyger Drew-Honey.
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 24th December 2014Radio Times review
For a while it looked as if Man Down might not return. Greg Davies' splendidly daft sitcom about a blundering oaf who is the victim of bizarre attacks from his father, looked in doubt when Rik Mayall - who played said father brilliantly - died in June 2014.
Without Mayall's injections of crazed comic energy the show won't be quite the same, but this Christmas one-off should give us an idea of how much he'll be missed. It was still being made as RT went to press but the plot involves Dan and his two friends - off-with-the-fairies Jo and brilliantly square Brian - visiting the farm of Dan's aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole). There they meet a peculiarly mean turkey.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 23rd December 2014Greg Davies: 'Writing my first comedy was frightening'
Greg Davies reveals his festive routine, his terror at writing his comedy and his hopes for 2015...
What's On TV, 23rd December 2014Greg Davies: we never considered replacing Rik Mayall
The Channel 4 comedy's writer and actor pays tribute to his late co-star and reveals The Young Ones legend was the first comedian to speak to him when he was growing up.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 20th December 2014