Kayode Ewumi
- Actor, writer, producer and executive producer
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BBC Comedy Playhouse to screen Tim Vine Travels Through Time
Tim Vine Travels Through Time, a new TV sitcom pilot, is to be one of three new BBC Comedy Playhouse pilots for 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 26th July 2017Kayode Ewumi creates new BBC Three sitcom Enterprice
#HoodDocumentary star Kayode Ewumi has created a new BBC Three sitcom pilot called Enterprice.
British Comedy Guide, 26th July 2017ITV2 orders new comedy series Action Team
ITV2 has commissioned Action Team, a new comedy series from the creative talent behind Murder In Successville.
British Comedy Guide, 10th May 2017Are 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 2016TV preview: Are You Being Served?, BBC1
So let's face it, this does nothing new but does the old thing pretty well.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th August 2016BBC Three to show new episodes of #HoodDocumentary
BBC Three has made new episodes of #HoodDocumentary, the hit online comedy starring Kayode Ewumi as the character R.S. (aka Roll Safe).
British Comedy Guide, 22nd April 2016New 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 2016Meeting the man behind Roll Safe
"It's based on a world that we've seen," says Kayode Ewumi, who plays RS, when I meet him at London's Young Vic Theatre; he used to work here as an usher until his newfound notoriety made the job a little tricky.
Chris Bethell, Vice.com, 22nd January 2016