Lynn Hunter
- Actor
Press clippings
Rosie Jones lands Disability Benefits with Channel 4, her first sitcom
Rosie Jones is writing and stars in her first sitcom, the six-part, Breaking Bad-esque comedy Disability Benefits for Channel 4. The commission follows a successful "blap" pilot last year.
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023The Tuckers ends after three series
The Tuckers, the Welsh sitcom created by Steve Speirs, has ended after three series. The BBC has confirmed it has opted not to commission a fourth run.
British Comedy Guide, 4th May 2023Rosie Jones, Jordan Brookes and Kiell Smith-Bynoe land Channel 4 Blaps
Channel 4 has announced seven new Comedy Blaps, including shorts for Rosie Jones, Jordan Brookes, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Harry Trevaldwyn.
British Comedy Guide, 13th April 2022David Earl movie Brian & Charles begins filming
David Earl's Brian Gittins is starring in a feature film. Production is now underway on Brian & Charles, shooting in North Wales.
British Comedy Guide, 1st December 2020The Tuckers to return for two more series
BBC One Wales has ordered two more series of The Tuckers, the sitcom written by and starring Steve Speirs.
British Comedy Guide, 8th November 2020TV review: The Tuckers, episode 2
This is not a bad show and the second episode is more out-and-out funnier than the first. It could just do with more of an original twist.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th January 2020TV review: The Tuckers, BBC One Wales
Some critics have suggested that the sitcom is a negative portrayal of working class Welsh valley stereotypes. I don't have a problem with that (though of course I'm not from the Welsh valleys). I'd have just liked it to have been funnier.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th January 2020TV review: The Tuckers Series 1 Episode 1
King Gary contained portrayals of working class characters that suffered from a surfeit of toxic masculinity and unfortunately so does this, I'm sure it's a coincidence they both went out on the same night and were presumably commissioned at different times and by different people, but it's unpleasant to see such a thing twice on the same evening. With The Tuckers you have two fathers who treat their sons appallingly, as Glyns Dad deliberately wants his son to be miserable and so tells his granddaughter to steal from him, while Glyn himself calls Bobby a pussy for apologising for punching Roberto, it's ugly, ugly stuff and something I found painfully unfunny.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th January 2020