British Comedy Guide

Jorgie Porter

  • Actor

Press clippings

Are You Being Served serves more of the same

The old show was never a critics' favourite - despite our howls about these comedy rehashes being sacrilegious grave-robbing. But it had a kind of bravery; the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalising gay sex was within recent memory, and living together was still 'living in sin' in the provinces. Its knowing primness was clever - a huge wink to the fourth wall of the masses that although the outré characters seemed naughty, and Mr Humphries got into scrapes with a wide array of young men, he was never explicit about them. But the world has moved on - Kim Kardashian's bum failed to break the internet and against shows like Catastrophe, this looks more than passé.

Deborah Shrewsbury, The Custard TV, 28th August 2016

New Are You Being Served? cast revealed

Jason Watkins, Jorgie Porter and Sherrie Hewson are amongst the stars of BBC's Are You Being Served? revival, it has been revealed.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd February 2016

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