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Comedies nominated in Royal Television Society Awards 2017
Catastrophe, People Just Do Nothing and The Windsors are amongst the nominees for the Royal Television Society Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2017BBC Sitcom Season: review of the pilots
Some of comedy's hottest names have been busy working on new sitcom pilots for BBC iPlayer, airing in September, with the hope of these creative projects later being picked up for a television series.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 19th October 2016BBC Two orders a full series of Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a full series of Motherland, the sitcom co-written by Graham Linehan, Sharon Horgan, Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh.
British Comedy Guide, 6th October 2016Preview: It's Not What You Know, Radio 4
Lycett says: "We had the most terrific fun recording the new series of It's Not What You Know and I personally can't wait for audiences to hear about Adrian Chiles' worrying eating habits, discover Nish Kumar's homicidal mother, and enjoy me having an argument with Vanessa Feltz."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd September 2016Motherland, BBC Two, review
Promising pilot of comedy about middle-class parenting.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th September 2016Essentially Mumsnet: the sitcom, an utterly hysterical and bracingly honest look at the messy business of motherhood. Diane ("Cunk") Morgan, Lucy Punch and Anna Maxwell Martin are by turns chaotic, uber-competitive and Not Coping Very Well ("I really want the children to be brought up like I was - by my mother") in this delicious one-off from the combined writing talents of Graham and Helen Linehan, Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh. Fingers crossed for a series.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 6th September 2016Motherland preview
Frenetic, stressy and trying to juggle several balls at once... the whole tone of Motherland has a lot of parallels with the chaotic realities of parenthood, which it represents so well.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th September 2016TV preview: Motherland, BBC2
How kind of the BBC to save the sitcom pilot with the most potential until last.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th September 2016BBC Three publishes new Top Ten series
BBC Three has launched a new online web series in which comedians list their 'Top Tens' on a subject of their choosing. Additionally, it is inviting fans to submit their own lists.
British Comedy Guide, 14th July 2016The art of the comedy fringe poster
Last year, Holly Walsh posed with an upside-down cigarette, this year Nish Kumar is going retro ... what makes for a good comedy poster? And does a comic's offering actually draw audiences to their Edinburgh show?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 10th July 2015