Samson Kayo

Timewasters: definitely not a waste of time

The British comedy about jazz musicians who're transported to the 1920s makes its America debut on IMDb TV.

Sliced review

When this comedy launched two years ago, I called it 'filthy but funny'. The foul language has been dialled down a notch. Not so filthy now -- and still funny.

Samson Kayo on the return of his hit sitcom Sliced

Dave sitcom Sliced is back for more episodes. We found out more from writer and lead star Samson Kayo...

Samson Kayo interview

A lot of the cast are my friends. It feels like work is having a laugh.

Bloods (Sky One) pairs Famalam's Samson Kayo with, bizarrely, Jane Horrocks, as a mismatched pair of paramedics. The opener has each of them struggling towards any kind of cultural rapport - he big and angry and avowedly from the 'hood, she librarian-kind and mousy and determinedly from the suburbs of somewhere northern. It somehow works as comedy, if of the sweeter rather than distinctly darker kind. Hugely helped by the outlying cast, particularly Lucy Motherland Punch as the boss with an unrequited crush on sad widower Julian Barratt. Who would (quite inexplicably) rather cry into his pint than jump her bones.

Bloods review

A magnificent paramedic comedy full of gallows humour.

Bloods, Sky One, review

It was hard to laugh at this paramedic comedy - the medical emergencies felt too real.

Bloods, episode 1 review

Samson Kayo outshines Jane Horrocks in this odd-couple comedy.