Holly Walsh
- 44 years old
- English
- Writer, director, executive producer, script editor and stand-up comedian
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Preview: QI - Rejoice! A Christmas Special, BBC Two
Sandi Toksvig returns to host a festive edition of QI based around the letter R, so let's all Rejoice!
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd December 2020The Other One, Holly Walsh's gleeful twin-family saga ended (if you've been watching in real time) on a real high. It had many terrific lines, mainly - as usual - from Ellie White as Cathy, whom you suspect the writer most identifies with. One clue: she gives her the sharpest lines. After she has been given a particularly gaudy tiara-and-mascara makeover by Cat (Lauren Socha), dowdy safe Cathy declares to the mirror: "Oh My God! I love it... I look like I could have my own show! On ITV3!" Marilyn (Siobhan Finneran) finally makes it out of the house, Rebecca Front's Tess finally forgives cheating Colin (Simon Greenall) and, after a cheeky red herring, the stage is well set for a second series. There have been harder recommissions to predict.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 19th July 2020TV review: The Other One series 1 episode 1
How well you get on with The Other One will depend on your tolerance for cringe factor.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th June 2020TV review: The Other One
Despite all the jokes about class, Marcus's disastrous 'dick pics' disaster and the essential betrayal at the heart of the Walcott's marriage, there's a real sweetness to the developing relationship between the two Catherines which makes this a joy to watch.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 12th June 2020In September 2017, I wrote that The Other One was a BBC comedy pilot in search of a commission: it gained that commission and returned this week - albeit with the rerun pilot (boo), but over the next six weeks it will delight and enthral with high humour and low blows from writers Holly Walsh and Pippa Brown. The only true mystery is why the fandoodle it took so long.
It is a glorious slice-of-life comedy, way superior to so much else on these days. OK, the plot is a twitch forced - bigamist dies, leaving two disparate families, in two utterly disparate class zones - but the warmth of all within, the sharpness of the writing, the performances, particularly from Ellie White as the smiling uptight coil of a spring who can't quite leave a middle-class totem untouched and Lauren Socha as the unsprung spring who can't quite leave a working-class totem unsaid... in this will lie a certain dramatic magic.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 7th June 2020Holly Walsh: 'Half my ideas come from talking rubbish'
The comedian and writer tells Robin Parker about her inspiration for her BBC1 comedy The Other One and the isolation of working in lockdown.
Robin Parker, Broadcast, 5th June 2020Holly Walsh: interview
The comedian, comedy writer and TV producer on the things that make her laugh the most.
The Guardian, 5th June 2020The Other One review
Motherland writer Holly Walsh has created a cheering portrait of a family brought together through loss.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 5th June 2020Holly Walsh interview
"Comedy is like the church - a lot of female vicars, not many female bishops".
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 4th June 2020TV preview: The Other One, BBC One
Whether by luck or judgement the BBC is on a roll at the moment with sitcoms featuring strong female casts.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd June 2020