British Comedy Guide
Helen Serafinowicz
Helen Serafinowicz

Helen Serafinowicz

  • Writer, producer and executive producer

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Comedies nominated in British Screenwriters' Awards

The nominations for the British Screenwriters' Awards 2018 features the writers of Famalam, Timewasters, Derry Girls, Sick Note and Motherland.

British Comedy Guide, 18th July 2018

BBC confirms Motherland Series 2

The BBC has now officially confirmed that Motherland is due to return for a second series.

British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018

Motherland to return for Series 2

BBC Two sitcom Motherland is to return for a second series, Sharon Horgan has revealed.

British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2018

The 20 best TV comedies of 2017

Here - in no particular order - are the 20 best shows from 2017.

Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 11th December 2017

Motherland, series 1

Watching Motherland feels somewhat like how I imagine it feels to watch a car crash unfold. But this is disaster comedy that never takes the easy route.

Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 3rd December 2017

Episode four of Linehan, Linehan, Horgan and Walsh's excellent comedy about the Ocado-flavoured trials of suburban motherhood, and Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) is struggling to cope. In what is now a running gag, she calls husband Paul, who is super busy (read: enjoying punting and Pimms). He offers to send his parents to help, but Elizabeth and Geoff only aggravate Julia further, despite Kevin stepping in to offer his "expertise" with the elderly.

Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 28th November 2017

Motherland / Detectorists, review

From fundraising cash to buried treasure, these sitcoms are comedy gold.

Barney Harsent, The Arts Desk, 15th November 2017

Motherland: one of the best comedies in the last decade

I cannot recommend it highly enough, thanks to its knuckle-chewing awkwardness and leftfield casting.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 14th November 2017

Review: Motherland, episode two, BBC2/iPlayer

If you are or you've been a parent you'll love it, but you'll be watching it through your fingers.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th November 2017

Motherland's achievement: its near universal appeal

Both parents and the happily child-free will enjoy this borderline revolutionary BBC Two comedy.

Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 9th November 2017

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