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Newark, Newark. Rowan (Nathan Foad)
Nathan Foad

Nathan Foad

  • Actor, writer and comedian

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Nathan Foad on Newark, Newark

"TV execs want working class people to be warm and wholesome."

Lauren O'Neill, i Newspaper, 24th March 2022

Review: Martin Fishback, BBC

Tactless, middle-class dad Martin Fishback wants to become a crime-writer... This is a small modest pilot, which is apt, because Fishback is a small, modest man. In the most boring suburban clothes in Christendom. With the most boring suburban voice in Christendom too. And very funny.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th February 2022

Martin Fishback review

Fergus Craig stuck viral gold during lockdown with his alter-ego Martin, the worst kind of middle-class, self-important boomer, making shouty video calls to his student son. Now wise BBC executives have commissioned this 15-minute taster to bring this socially inept twerp to a wider audience.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th February 2022

Fergus Craig brings Martin Fishback character to BBC Two

BBC Two has ordered Martin Fishback, a pilot starring Fergus Craig as a tactless middle class dad who has ambitions to become a crime writer.

British Comedy Guide, 28th January 2022

Interview: Nathan Foad on writing Newark, Newark

Newark, Newark writer Nathan Foad talks exclusively about new Gold TV comedy sitcom filmed in town of same name.

Dan Churcher, Newark Advertiser, 23rd December 2021

Filming starts on Series 2 of Bloods

Production is underway on the second series of Bloods, with Katherine Kelly and Nathan Foad joining the cast.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2021

Colin Hoult stars in sitcom pilot set in East Midlands

Colin Hoult has a lead role in Newark, Newark, a sitcom written by Nathan Foad about his childhood and adolescence in the eponymous East Midlands market town.

British Comedy Guide, 16th April 2020

Charlotte Ritchie to star in All 4 comedy Working Girl

Charlotte Richie is to star in Working Girl, a comedy project in development with Channel 4's online platform, All 4. The show has been revealed as creative agency The Wagon launch a comedy slate.

British Comedy Guide, 27th April 2017

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