Michael McKean
- Actor
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James Acaster's spoof crime podcast Springleaf attracts all-star cast
James Acaster has launched his spoof true crime podcast, Springleaf, in which he plays his undercover cop alter-ego, Pat Springleaf, with a cast that includes Finn Wolfhard, Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Tom Allen, Sara Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Nish Kumar, Rosie Jones, Guz Khan, Phil Wang, Ed Gamble, Josh Widdicombe, Sindhu Vee, Natalie Cassidy and Domhnall Gleeson.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2023TV review: Breeders, Sky One
The first episode positively zips by. It lasts about 25 minutes, though I guess if you took the fucks out of it, it would be around a quarter of an hour.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 2020Good Omens review
Good Omens will probably work best for those with a strong decades-old attachment to the material already, or people more attuned to the kind of genial wackiness it's going for.
Dan Owen, Frame Rated, 13th June 2019Good Omens spoiler-free review
Our US chums give us a spoiler-free look at Neil Gaiman's devilishly good new Good Omens adaptation, arriving tomorrow on Amazon Prime...
Michael Ahr, Den Of Geek, 30th May 2019Filming begins on Good Omens
Production is underway on Good Omens, the new TV series based on the book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The series stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
British Comedy Guide, 18th September 2017Watching this new Christopher Guest sitcom is a peculiar experience. For example, the pieces to camera can look like a hackneyed device, worn out through over-use. But then, if Christopher Guest can't utilise pieces to camera from his characters, who can? For a particular kind of arch, absurd, self-aware comedy, he wrote the rulebook.
This feels like a very new venture for Guest. Not only is Family Tree his first TV project, but it's more plot-heavy and open-ended than his film work: the box of family treasures given to laconic lost soul Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd) could be the passport to as much digression, misadventure and silliness as Guest and the cast fancy, as Tom follows his familial trail through Britain and America.
The Family Tree ensemble also contains Michael McKean, Nina Conti, co-writer Jim Piddock, Tom Bennett and eventually, such mainstays of Guest's films as Fred Willard. So, even if this opening episode feels slightly low-key, it seems reasonable to assume that we're in safe comedic hands.
Phil Harrison, Time Out, 16th July 2013