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Man Down, series 2 episode 1, review: 'vulgar'
Greg Davies's infantile sitcom is only the poorer after the death of Rik Mayall, says Sarah Carson.
Sarah Carson, The Telegraph, 1st June 2015Man Down series 2 review
The death of Rik Mayall was a huge loss to comedy - and especially to Man Down. The wild slapstick stunts he played on Greg Davies's character, Dan, were the highlight of every episode in series one. So could the series survive without him? The answer is a resounding yes. In fact, it's possibly even better.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2015TV preview: Man Down, C4
OK, I confess. I wasn't convinced by the first series of Man Down. It had its moments, but given that they were mostly in the violent interplay between Greg Davies and his TV dad Rik Mayall I had a bad feeling about the second series which - for sad but obvious reasons - doesn't feature Mayall. Yet would you believe it, it looks like they've turned it round.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2015Greg Davies opens up about painful year
TV star Greg Davies has told of his painful year after both his father and the man who played his on-screen dad - Rik Mayall - died.
Danny Walker, The Mirror, 26th May 2015Greg Davies: 'Rik Mayall was still a force of nature.'
The Man Down star and comedian has had a hard year, with both the death of his father and onscreen dad Rik Mayall and a breakup with Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 20th May 2015Rik Mayall's family face huge tax bill due to no will
Comedian Rik Mayall failed to leave a valid will to deal with his £1.2 million estate, which experts say could leave his family with a large inheritance tax bill.
Andrew Young, Mail on Sunday, 19th April 2015Second posthumous Rik Mayall project in pipeline
Following our story yesterday that Rik Mayall's last film performance in The Escape is to get a release in Holland in April, it has emerged that there is a second unreleased film featuring Mayall, entitled One By One, which claims to be his last British feature film and has a confirmed UK release date. It will be screened from this June.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th March 2015Rik Mayall's final performance to be released
The film featuring Rik Mayall's final performance is to feature a special dedication to him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th March 2015"Did Iron Age woman have Playtex to guide her?" shouts a young Rik Mayall to a reluctantly undressing Jennifer Saunders. So begins Dawn French's superbly bizarre comedy set at a summer school offering a course in 'Iron Age Living', also starring Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 20th March 2015A tribute to Rik Mayall's charismatic comedy
The best in a little run of short stories co-written and read by Rik Mayall (13 March, 9pm) told of a man called Mike necking two pints of sherry in a London pub and subsequently losing any semblance of a plot back at the office.
Antonia Quirke, The New Statesman, 19th March 2015