Oliver Savell
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The week in TV: Changing Ends
Changing Ends clearly wants to avoid being angst-ridden, but there's a dark thread here involving historical homophobia towards a spirited, vulnerable boy that keeps wriggling through.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 4th June 2023Changing Ends review
Changing Ends beams with warmth despite - or more likely because of - the endemic 1980s homophobia which forms its backdrop. Dropped into this world, like a naive alien, is a camp, buck-toothed, socially awkward child, misunderstood by almost everyone and ostracised by most of them.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2023Changing Ends review
A laugh-out-loud autobiographical comedy with a lot of heart.
Morgan Cormack, Radio Times, 31st May 2023Changing Ends: Alan Carr 'jumped for joy' after casting younger self
Alan Carr says he "jumped for joy" after casting the actor who will play his younger self in a new sitcom about the comedian's life.
BBC, 23rd May 2023Gossip from ITVX Comedy Showcase
Alan Carr feared putting a curse on the young actor picked to play him as a lad. Katherine Parkinson reckons creating chemistry with a co-star is almost impossible - unless you fancy them. Jaime Winstone was meant to play a classic Essex girl in ITVX comedy Count Abdulla. But she convinced bosses to ditch the typecasting and let her be a punk dominatrix vampire.
Felicity Cross, The Sun, 10th May 2023Alan Carr sitcom Changing Ends begins filming
Filming has now commenced on Changing Ends, the new six-part sitcom based on Alan Carr's childhood in Northampton.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2023Alan Carr making ITV sitcom Changing Ends
Alan Carr has written and stars in Changing Ends, an ITV sitcom based upon his adolescence growing up gay in Northampton, while his father was manager of the local football club.
British Comedy Guide, 11th November 2022