Mark Bonnar
- Actor
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Guilt, episode 1 review
This witty, gritty new thriller is no guilty pleasure.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 30th October 2019Guilt, BBC Scotland/BBC2: meeting writer and cast
The channel's first scripted commission is a darkly comic tale of two brothers involved in a hit-and-run. Vicki Power meets writer Neil Forsyth and the cast.
Vicki Power, Broadcast, 23rd October 2019Defending The Guilty Series 2 confirmed
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Defending The Guilty, the legal-based sitcom starring Will Sharpe and Katherine Parkinson.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd October 2019Defending the Guilty: overstuffed with stereotypes
A new adaptation of Alex McBride's memoir is not quite as funny as it thinks it is.
Alistair McKay, Evening Standard, 17th September 2019Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives to star in new comedy drama Guilt
Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives will star in a new BBC Scotland comedy drama series. Guilt, by Neil Forsyth, focuses on two men who commit a hit and run murder.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd January 2019Eric, Ernie and Me, written by the estimably witty Dundonian Neil Forsyth, was the tale of market trader Eddie Braben's breakdowns as he rose and rose from scribbling gags on paper bags to giving us what many rightly think of as the television of the 1970s, the M&W Christmas specials.
Stephen Tompkinson was pitch-perfect as Braben, but the standout find was Mark Bonnar as Eric Morecambe. Flawlessly, he began to inhabit the soul of Eric, but slowly, moving from hesitant to comfortable, as indeed the clever script had Eric and Ernie move, under clever Eddie's tutelage, from vaudeville gagsters to two pals taking the gentle rip out of each other on primetime TV: the 1977 special was watched by 28 million.
Interestingly, Eric, as played by Bonnar written by Forsyth, came across as the reactionary scaredy-cat; Ernie Wise as the ebullient, exuberant, travel-loving hoofer. What a lovely programme, rewatchable often, if only for Braben's finest gags.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018Mark Bonnar interview
TV star Mark Bonnar reveals how he captured comedy legend.
The Sunday Post, 24th December 2017Stephen Tompkinson and Mark Bonnar interview
Stephen Tompkinson and Mark Bonnar on starring in a touching BBC4 drama celebrating Morecambe & Wise writer Eddie Braben.
TV Times, 12th December 2017The enduringly likable panel show trundles cheerfully on. This week's guests for the good-natured fib-fest are Stephen Mangan, Mark Bonnar, Sheila Hancock and Anita Rani but, as ever, the show truly hits its stride when Lee Mack and David Mitchell lock horns and engage their counterintuitive comic chemistry. There are vanishingly few things we can rely on in today's bewildering world but it seems this programme is one of them.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 27th November 2017TV review: Porridge, Episode 2, The Cake, BBC1
You know what? I still think it's an odd decision to reboot this classic, but this second episode isn't too bad at all.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th October 2017