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Stephen Fry on Blandings
"Blandings is a world unto itself and Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England."
Stephen Fry, Radio Times, 13th January 2013First Night: Blandings, BBC1
Somebody had at one point mixed in a cartoonish comedy sound effect to underline a joke - as if Wodehouse's comedy is a comic-strip affair, rather than a lovely collision of the highest style with the emptiest content. As television it wasn't bad at all. As Wodehouse, it wasn't quite good enough.
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent, 13th January 2013Blandings: episode one review
The lively chat could not save what was ultimately an arch and rather empty effort. Never were you drawn into the world of Blandings and never did you get a sense of the precise and comic world which Wodehouse created.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 13th January 2013Blandings is just the ticket, by jove
BBC1's new Wodehouse adaptation is a trouser dropping farce of the old school.
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian, 12th January 2013Blandings = Downton with less grandeur and more farce
As we reported back in February of last year, a bit of PG Wodehouse brilliance is coming your way as Blandings premieres tomorrow on BBC One at 1830. For those that feel Downton Abbey has a bit too much grandeur for its own good and needs a bit of farce (or more than it already has in some people's minds, anyway) then Blandings is well worth your telly time this Sunday.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 12th January 2013The balm of Blandings
PG Wodehouse's gentle unravelling of upper-class twerpery offers us refuge from our own rage. But was he a class warrior?
Morven Crumlish, The Guardian, 12th January 2013Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV?
Not since Ralph Richardson in 1967 have Lord Emsworth and his beloved pig graced our screens. But can the BBC faithfully capture PG Wodehouse's comic prose in new series Blandings.
Robert McCrum, The Guardian, 12th January 2013Video: BBC News preview of Blandings
Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders star in a new television series set in 1929 and based on the Blandings Castle comedy stories by PG Wodehouse. Saunders jokes that the comedy series is "more realistic" than the hit ITV drama Downton Abbey.
BBC News, 11th January 2013Meet the cast of BBC1's comedy drama Blandings
Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and a pig star in the Sunday night adaptation of PG Wodehouse's stories.
Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 10th January 2013Pull back! Mending sitcom ideas that go wrong
A question that's come up from Twitter from a man called Simon goes thus: "At what point do you stop trying to mend a story that isn't working and go back to square one? Is there a deciding factor?"
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 1st January 2013