Mark Bonnar
- Actor
Press clippings Page 5
Porridge, revived, is sadly thin gruel. Oh, it's fine enough, and a good cast, and Kevin Bishop is great as Norman Stanley Fletcher's cheeky-chappie grandson Nigel. But sainted writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are eightysomething, surely, and it shows. As soon as Cyrano de Bergerac was mentioned (by Mark Bonnar, nicely channelling Fulton Mackay), I could just hear something like "doesn't he play for Spurs?" Sure enough... "Didn't he used to play for Watford?" Cue orgasmic studio audience laughter, and the non-joys of being 15 all over again.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 8th October 2017Porridge review - send for the sitcom police!
The original Porridge creators return with a weak, watery throwback to the Ronnie Barker classic. This isn't a sequel, it's a forgery ... bang 'em up this instant.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 7th October 2017Stephen Tompkinson to play Eddie Braben in BBC biopic
Stephen Tompkinson will play Morecambe & Wise writer Eddie Braben in BBC Four's Eric, Ernie & Me. Meanwhile Mark Bonnar and Neil Maskell will play the comedy stars.
British Comedy Guide, 6th October 2017Porridge: The Go-Between preview
The new Porridge certainly feels comfortable and familiar, but also does enough not to be a shameless counterfeit, even if it clearly exists in the shadow of its forebear.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th October 2017Porridge reboot has none of the original's flavour
I barely broke into a titter through the whole thirty minutes.
Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 6th October 2017Porridge reboot shows that past is best left alone
Watching the new Porridge is like visiting a favourite old café only to find that its best bits have been jettisoned: the tomato-shaped ketchup bottles have been replaced by sachets, the Formica tables by stripped pine. Sometimes the past is best left alone.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 6th October 2017TV review: Porridge, BBC1
Over the weekend I posted a small preview of this new series on Facebook and very quickly got an unusually large number of comments. Let's put it this way. The only person who said something nice about the reboot of the regularly repeated classic prison sitcom was a mate of one of the cast.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd October 2017Catastrophe, Series 3, review - 'the end of the road?'
Good grief? Channel 4's marital sitcom turns deadly serious.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 5th April 2017Mark Bonnar interview
"I've always been attracted to the weird". The actor talks crude comedy, Catastrophe and Carrie Fisher.
Ellie Harrison, Radio Times, 28th March 2017Rewind: Psychoville revisited
A third season of Inside No. 9 arrives on our TV screens this month, so let's take a look back at its creators' previous comedy venture, Psychoville.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 15th February 2017