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The quartet do head out tonight, into the great outdoors, on a camping trip that quickly descends into the usual silly farce that you'll enjoy against your better judgement. Don't miss dopey Daisy (Katy Wix) showing Tim Vine what she's made of.
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 27th April 2012Katy Wix's favourite TV shows
Star of new comedy Not Going Out, Katy Wix, talks to Metro about why she can't miss an episode of Breaking Bad, her adoration of 30 Rock writer Tina Fey and why being confused in The Wire is a good thing.
Amy Dawson, Metro, 17th April 2012Katy Wix annoyed by not getting recognised for comedy
"Depressingly, I get recognised for that. I don't get recognised much for the comedy I do."
The Sun, 13th April 2012It's the new series of Lee Mack's pun-tastic, guilty pleasure sitcom. And there are a few improvements: Lucy, the put-upon landlady who is forever the apple of Lee's eye, has had her edges softened; and Katy Wix is given better material to work with as Tim Vine's dappy girlfriend. To kick off, Vine looks endearingly ridiculous as he decides to join a band.
Metro, 13th April 2012Channel 4 order Anna Crilly and Katy Wix sketch show
Channel 4 has commissioned a six-part series of Anna & Katy's Television Programme, a sketch show starring Anna Crilly and Katy Wix.
British Comedy Guide, 24th January 2012Fans of comedy duo Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong should lap up this spiffingly funny one-off comedy. It's written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and is set in London in 1908, the year the Olympics first came to the city.
Murdo (Armstrong) and Felix (Miller) are posh, fun-loving friends who happily indulge in a drink-and-drugs fest while one of them attempts to complete in the Games, and the other plans a sudden marriage to a lady called Fanny (obv), and all the while they utter a non-stop stream of innuendo.
The rave-dancing sequence is hilarious, Armstrong and Miller are a joy, and they're well supported by Georgie King, Katy Wix and Lizzie Roper. Let's have a full series, please.
Boyd Hilton, Heat Magazine, 17th December 2011The third pilot in the Comedy Showcase series, The Fun Police is a studio based sitcom (featuring live laughter, to the shock and mortification of professional TV critics) about an inept health and safety department.
It's a more traditional sitcom in the style of shows like The IT Crowd, albeit with more unusually daft humour. The pilot sees Leslie (Rhys Derby) taking over as head of health and safety in the town of Brightsea after one of his work colleges, Neil (Jack Doolan), put their boss in a coma after accidentally falling on top of her.
The best way to describe The Fun Police is that it's 'enjoyably silly'. Leslie, for example, instead of coming up with a press statement about the accident spends his time ordering new furniture and designing a new mascot to make health and safety more fun. Another character, Toni (Katy Wix - who seems to be in at least one Channel 4 pilot per week at the moment) is an over-zealous officer with a robotic hand, paranoid about the dangers of the sea and helium balloons. This pilot also featured a cameo from Vic Reeves (credited under his real name Jim Moir) as an egotistical town planner driven mad by the power to name streets.
The Fun Police is full of ideas and is certainly a fun show. Not every joke is a cracker, but it certainly made me laugh and I for one would think it would make a good series if given the chance.
Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 19th September 2011Fans of Flight of the Conchords will be very pleased to see the band's inept manager Murray (Rhys Darby[/o]) starring in this new pilot that could have been written especially for him.
He plays Leslie, head of a team of health and safety inspectors, and his blend of naive enthusiasm and shocking ideas are pure Murray.
The Fun Police was written by Matt Morgan, who was Russell Brand's straight-man sidekick on his BBC Radio 2 and there are a lot of very funny ideas in this.
I especially like Katy Wix as an inspector obsessed with shutting down the sea on safety grounds. She does have a point.
Vic Reeves is in it, too, as a town planner, although for some reason he looks like he's come as Keith Lemon and he's credited by his real name of Jim Moir.
Commission a series of this one please, Channel 4 people. I'd like to see more.
Jane Simon, The Mirror, 16th September 2011If you're still laughing at the memory of Rob Brydon and Nick Hewer sharing an orange cuddle jumper last week, tune in tonight for some more fibbing fun.
David Mitchell's mate Robert Webb joins the panel tonight and would have us believe he once had so many imaginary friends they formed a gang.
Also on David's team is Sir Terry Wogan, with totally absurd stories that might or might not be true. Either way, he enjoys himself telling them.
It's almost impossible NOT to grin like an idiot all the way through as everyone is having such a good time. But it's in the cross-examination where this show really takes off.
It seems that inside every panellist is a barrister dying to get out and if the comedy thing ever dries up, somewhere out there is a horsehair wig with Lee Mack's name on it.
Katy Wix, Kevin Bridges and host Rob Brydon join in tonight's gleeful grilling.
Jane Simon, The Mirror, 16th September 2011Silliness abounds in writer Matt Morgan and director Richard Boden's pilot set in the offices of an accident-prone health and safety team. Rhys Darby, familiar as the dense manager Murray in Flight of the Conchords, hams it up to the max as the still more OTT office manager, Leslie. Katy Wix and Jack Doolan are good in support. It's hard to see where it can go in sitcom terms as there's barely enough material to fill this 30 minutes, but fans of knockabout comedy may find more to please.
Gerald O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 15th September 2011