Helen Serafinowicz
- Writer, producer and executive producer
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Royal Television Society announces 2022 award nominations
The Royal Television Society has announced the nominees for its annual Programme Awards, with comedies including We Are Lady Parts, Bloods, Motherland and Alma's Not Normal all up for prizes.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd March 2022Motherland series three review
Sharon Horgan's angry baby is as biting as ever when skewering narcissistic middle-class mums. But it could make its white characters squirm a bit more.
Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian, 24th May 2021Motherland to be re-made in America
A project is underway to re-make BBC sitcom Motherland for American audiences.
British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2021Motherland Christmas special review
The slapstick carnage in this one-off episode - there's a broken nose, a toppled tree and an explosion of flour - is not as funny as the more low-key moments.
Alexandra Pollard, The Independent, 23rd December 2020TV review: Motherland, BBC2
It was announced just before this second series started that there would be a third series of Motherland. It's be interesting to see how it evolves as there are a few changes in the opening episode of the second run.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th October 2019Middle-class mums are in the not-so-flattering spotlight for a second season of Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh and Helen Linehan's comedy on parenthood at the school gates. As term starts up, there is fresh blood in the form of high-flying mum of four Meg (straight-talking Tanya Moodie); she has conspicuously moved in opposite Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), who continues to juggle a hectic career with the efforts of keeping up with the other parents. A gleeful takedown of competitive parenting culture.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 7th October 2019Motherland series 2 preview
It's a welcome return for Motherland, the comedy that does for parenthood what The Thick Of It did for politics - revealing in ugly detail the stresses and panic behind every hastily improvised decision made by the tired and harassed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th October 2019Motherland, series 2, review
This astute, spiky sitcom conjures stress so vivid that it's difficult to watch.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 7th October 2019Does Motherland need to pit women against each other?
The BBC2 sitcom expertly deconstructs traditional representations of motherhood, only to lazily cast its characters as school-run Mean Girls.
Fiona Sturges, i Newspaper, 5th October 2019BBC confirms third series for Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a further series of comedy Motherland. The ensemble sitcom's second series begins next week.
British Comedy Guide, 1st October 2019