Michaela Coel
- Actor and producer
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E4 sitcom Chewing Gum ends after two series
Michaela Coel has reportedly said she doesn't want to make any more episodes of her hit E4 sitcom Chewing Gum.
British Comedy Guide, 21st August 2017Murder In Successville and Chewing Gum win awards
Murder In Successville and Chewing Gum won awards at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 6th July 2017The second outing of Michaela Coel's outrageous Bafta-winning comedy. Back on the Pensbourne estate, Tracey is getting into scrapes as usual, shouting about her propensity for thrush in a sex club, getting embroiled in a zoophilia ring after becoming the dog walker to Oral-ando, a pornographic dachshund - and almost losing her virginity in a disabled toilet, only to end up covered in vomit. More awards for her, please.
The Guardian, 28th June 2017Chewing Gum: this is the future of comedy
From its sex clubs to its seedy zoophilia rings, Chewing Gum is always close to the knuckle - and it's taking British comedy to gruesome, gleeful new heights.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 9th February 2017Will there be a third series of Chewing Gum?
No decision yet - but both the star and Channel 4 are believed to be keen for more of the E4 hit.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 9th February 2017Stars set off for Comic Relief convoy
Six celebrities have set off on a road trip with a difference for Comic Relief.
Russell Kane, Katy Brand, Reggie Yates, Michaela Coel, Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel are those taking part.
BBC News, 6th February 2017Red Nose Day 2017 plans revealed
Comic Relief's plans for Red Nose Day 2017 include a TV show involving stars including French & Saunders and Vic & Bob, plus a series of online comedy sketches, and much more.
British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2017In light of last week's cracking series two opener, this week Michaela Coel's comedy feels slightly lighter on big laughs, its humour more understated. A now homeless Tracey wants to move back in with her mum, who stipulates she demonstrate her Christian piety first. Meanwhile, Tracey is pursued with a strange intensity by a posh, attractive man, a plot that allows the show to once again explore the objectification of black people with both wit and a simmering rage.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 19th January 2017Chewing Gum was gamey meat indeed. Michaela Coel sassed and swore her way to a clutch of deserved awards in 2015, and returns with a second series that certainly doesn't rely on lazy stereotypes. Her character, Tracey, is - I'm fairly sure this is unique - an exuberantly dysfunctional twentysomething, ex-religious, black, mouthy virgin with a great line in backchat and an endless capacity for self-deception. Its relentless energy leaves one's limbs akimbo on the sofa, pebble-dashed with loud, flirty vomit. First watching, I hated it. Second, I loved it, and got it. Third - who's to know? A constant blithering surprise, and thus to be truly cherished in TV-land.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 15th January 2017TV review: Chewing Gum, E4
It's good to have Chewing Gum back. It's very different to any other series I've seen recently, while at the same time it has echoes of the BBC hit Fleabag, which it preceded. If that programme was all Phoebe Waller-Bridge's idea about contemporary attitudes to sex, then Chewing Gum is very much Michaela Coel's view of modern romance.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th January 2017