Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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Boy Meets Girl review
As the United Kingdom is convulsed by a post-referendum outbreak of intolerance, goodness knows the nation needs all the harmony-enhancing, bridge-building entertainment it can lay its eyeballs on. Anything that promotes civilised values and challenges fear of otherness is to be welcomed and supported. It was in this spirit that, last year, Boy Meets Girl became the first mainstream comedy with a transgender lead character. Its return for a second series couldn't come at a more propitious moment. It's not much fun, then, to report that its good intentions are the best thing about Boy Meets Girl.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 6th July 2016Mum had a masterful send-off for a sitcom - review
Bar the odd irresistible pursuit of a gag for the gag's sake, the scripts by Stefan Golaszewski purred as satisfyingly as anything in The Royle Family.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 17th June 2016Upstart Crow: Bard saved Elton from sitcom oblivion
Alack the day! Upstart Crow (BBC Two) has shuffled off its chortle coil. There was something for everyone in Ben Elton's learned Bardcom.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 14th June 2016Rovers, Sky1, review
Lo-fi football sitcom starring Craig Cash and Sue Johnston has its heart in the right place.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 25th May 2016Going Forward: Jo Brand shines but sitcom needs nursing
This was another comedy about broken Britain, but focusing not on those who toil inside a knackered state institution but the wider social fabric, privatised to buggery but somehow doddering on. Homelier and gentler and patchier than Getting On, it somehow lacks its asperity but also its poetry.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 19th May 2016Mum review
The tone is gentle, observational, the pace glacially lifelike. Stefan Golaszewski, who also writes plays, won a BAFTA for his previous television comedy Him & Her. Mum is more unassuming.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 14th May 2016Mum, episode one review
While there were some weak patches in the first episode - I'm not sure how long we should be expected to find it funny that a woman's lost glasses are on her head - Mum looks set to be a stronger take on the trials of the M&S set than BBC One's Boomers.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 13th May 2016We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story, BBC Two, review
Touching comedy drama tells of a near miss for a national institution.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 23rd December 2015Doomed comedy that was rescued from the stupid boys
A new dramatisation shows how the bigwigs at the BBC nearly canned Dad's Army before the balloon went up, says Jasper Rees.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 16th December 2015The World According to Kenny Everett, review
The documentary didn't offer much that was new for those familiar with his story but it was a fitting reminder of his genius, says Jasper Rees.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 13th December 2015