Press clippings
Top 5 comic novels, chosen by comedy screenwriter James Henry
From Mortdecai to Pratchett, via Cold Comfort Farm, these five books are hilarious in different ways.
James Henry, The Big Issue, 1st March 2025"You know your show is garbage!": inside TV's biggest backlashes
From Watchmen to The Rings Of Power to Piglets, TV is increasingly being bombarded with outrage. We talk to the creators of shows who faced down furore, review bombing and a furious police force.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 30th August 2024Sarah Parish and Mark Heap to star in Piglets
ITV has confirmed the cast of Piglets, the police-based comedy from the team behind Green Wing. The lead roles will be taken by Sarah Parish and Mark Heap.
British Comedy Guide, 1st May 2024Green Wing cast reunite for Audible podcast series
The cast of Green Wing have reunited for a six-part podcast sitcom. Green Wing: Resuscitated is available now from Audible.
British Comedy Guide, 29th April 2024Green Wing team create police training sitcom Piglets
ITVX has ordered Piglets, a sitcom set in a fictional police training college, created by the writing team behind Green Wing.
British Comedy Guide, 20th November 2023Green Wing writer James Henry pens debut novel Pagans
Green Wing and Smack The Pony scribe James Henry has written his debut novel, a police procedural set in the alternative universe of a modern Britain where the Norman conquest of 1066 never happened.
British Comedy Guide, 14th June 2023Wosson Cornwall is a groundbreaking hit and miss
It's a sign of the ubiquitous broadcast appeal - some would call it overkill - of Cornwall that it now has a dedicated sketch show on BBC Radio 4.
Lee Trewhela, Cornwall Live, 29th April 2023Dawn French joins Radio 4 Cornish sketch show Wosson Cornwall
Dawn French stars in Cornish sketch show Wosson Cornwall, coming to Radio 4 next month. French joins a cast that includes Edward Rowe, Joanna Neary and Tamsyn Kelly, with the writing team featuring Morwenna Banks, Paul Kerensa, James Henry and Max Davis.
British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2023Two years Doc Martin's been off our screens and I find, somewhat head-scratchingly, that I've somewhat missed it. A rather welcome fainting lady vicar came to town, and failed to marry dunderhead Joe, and Al's fat dad poisoned everyone, and thus all was back to normal among the usual yahoos and googans of Portwenn.
At heart, despite the clotted-cream fantasies, this still revolves around the Doc and the fact that the problem of living in any paradise, anywhere, will always, surely, simply be people and relationships. At one point, poor Louisa asked her husband, famously filter-free to the point I'm always staggered he passed any GMC screenings, of their son, James Henry: "Do you think he likes me?" Answers the now-peerless Martin Clunes: "Who knows?" A tragedy stuck inside a comedy, as so many fine British comedies have ever been at heart.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 24th September 2017Radio Times review
Darren Boyd's mildly irritating male midwife Matthew is back for a second stab at this gag-heavy and rather preposterous comedy. Here he has to deal with a father who has two women in labour at the same time (likely, huh?) and a silly subplot involving an altercation with the thuggish boyfriend of the colleague he fancies. There are some decent lines but a few gas-and-air duds you wouldn't expect from Green Wing writers Robert Harley and James Henry.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 22nd April 2015