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BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015. Morwenna Banks. Copyright: BBC
Morwenna Banks

Morwenna Banks

  • English
  • Actor and writer

Press clippings

Funny Woman Series 2 review

Rather than a technicolour nostalgia-fest, the series reminds us of a pervasive truth: some men, it seems, cannot handle a funny woman.

Antonia Georgiou, The Upcoming, 6th September 2024

Funny Woman Series 2 begins production

Production is underway on the second series of Funny Woman, the Sky comedy drama starring Gemma Arterton. Tim Key, Gemma Whelan and Roisin Conaty are amongst those joining the cast.

British Comedy Guide, 12th January 2024

Funny Woman to return for Series 2

Sky has recommissioned period comedy Funny Woman, about a female comedian and writer in the 1960s, starring Gemma Arterton.

British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023

Morwenna Banks's advice to comedy writing graduates as she gets an honorary fellowship

"Stay one step ahead of AI. Our livelihoods depend on us being human."

Chortle, 24th July 2023

Dawn French joins Radio 4 Cornish sketch show Wosson Cornwall

Dawn French stars in Cornish sketch show Wosson Cornwall, coming to Radio 4 next month. French joins a cast that includes Edward Rowe, Joanna Neary and Tamsyn Kelly, with the writing team featuring Morwenna Banks, Paul Kerensa, James Henry and Max Davis.

British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2023

Funny Woman review

Funny Woman, with a stinging script by Morwenna Banks, shamelessly revels in all the raunchy sexism of the 1960s while mocking the men who assumed every attractive female figure was topped off by a head full of air.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 10th February 2023

Funny Woman review

A convincing ensemble.

Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub, 9th February 2023

Sky Comedy Rep 2023 writers announced

Tom Critch, Doug Crossley, Alice Etches, Aoife Kennan, Mahad Ali, Georgie Morrell, Hattie Soykan and Asia Wray have been selected to take part in the Sky Comedy Rep scheme.

British Comedy Guide, 28th November 2022

Alison Steadman & Nigel Planer star in Radio 4 sex and farming sitcom

Radio 4 has ordered Mucking In, the latest sitcom from Sue Limb starring Alison Steadman, Nigel Planer and Morwenna Banks. The station has also ordered further series of Miles Jupp's Party's Over and Angus Deayton's Alone.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd June 2022

Gemma Arterton set to star in Nick Hornby's Funny Girl for Sky

Gemma Arterton has been lined up to star in Sky's adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel Funny Girl.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd July 2021

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