Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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Benidorm: review
When a series keeps coming back year after year, it must be doing something right. Benidorm (ITV) has booked in for a ninth series of cheerful antics on the Costa del Crud. The principal ingredients are sun, sea and a seemingly limitless supply of lame gags about bodily functions.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 1st March 2017No Offence: an irresistible feast for all the senses
No Offence is the motor-mouthed brainchild of Paul Abbott. No writer so abhors a vacuum. He crammed in more dialogue than could technically fit into the hour. And yet his love of language ("Hieronymus botch job", "bipolar bear") is wonderfully infectious.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 4th January 2017Walliams & Friend review
The problem for most of these sketches are so blandly decontextualised they could have been written any time in the past 40 years, and the punchlines tend to be feeble.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 26th November 2016Andy Hamilton interview
The man behind Outnumbered, Andy Hamilton, tells Jasper Rees how an impostor planted the seed for his first novel.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 15th September 2016Steptoe and Sons: tears of TV's finest clowns
The story behind the comedy great.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 14th September 2016Cold Feet episode two review
This comedy drama continues to make us feel warm inside.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 13th September 2016King & queen of comedy: Sharon Horgan & Graham Linehan
If they were musicians, they'd be forming a London Irish supergroup. Sharon Horgan is co-creator and star of the savvy, groundbreaking comedies Pulling and Catastrophe. Graham Linehan is the grandmaster of surreal farce, most of all in Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Together they have merged their talents in Motherland, a new comedy pilot directed by Linehan about the horrors of daytime parenting.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 6th September 2016Cold Feet, ITV, review
Mike Bullen's drama tackles midlife as if it's never been away.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 6th September 2016Fleabag, BBC Three, review
Have you seen Fleabag yet? If not, here's the one-word review: brilliant.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 25th August 2016It's time for 'Man Down' to grow up - review
Who is Man Down (Channel 4) for? Or rather, who was it for? There's one episode to go in the third series and there's a sense that it is seeing itself out, and perhaps won't be allowed back in through Channel 4's doors.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 10th August 2016