Sharon Horgan
- 54 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer, producer and executive producer
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Middle-class mums are in the not-so-flattering spotlight for a second season of Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh and Helen Linehan's comedy on parenthood at the school gates. As term starts up, there is fresh blood in the form of high-flying mum of four Meg (straight-talking Tanya Moodie); she has conspicuously moved in opposite Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), who continues to juggle a hectic career with the efforts of keeping up with the other parents. A gleeful takedown of competitive parenting culture.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 7th October 2019Does Motherland need to pit women against each other?
The BBC2 sitcom expertly deconstructs traditional representations of motherhood, only to lazily cast its characters as school-run Mean Girls.
Fiona Sturges, i Newspaper, 5th October 2019Sharon Horgan: unstoppable rise as honest comedy master
As Motherland's second series begins, co-writers tell of the work ethic at heart of writer's success.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 4th October 2019Progress 1000: London's most influential people: comedy
The most influential people in London for comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 3rd October 2019BBC confirms third series for Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a further series of comedy Motherland. The ensemble sitcom's second series begins next week.
British Comedy Guide, 1st October 2019Shame on us for making Motherland so white
When BBC Two's comedy Motherland launched last year it was garlanded with praise for its warts-and-all portrayal of flustered parents thrust together at the school gates. But co-writer Sharon Horgan says she only belatedly realised they had made one serious oversight. 'We thought it was really fucking white,' she now admits, realising the narrow scope of the characters' ethnic mix. 'By the time we came to watch it, we thought, "shame on us".'
Chortle, 1st October 2019Sharon Horgan reveals she felt 'awkward' on school runs
Sharon Horgan has admitted she became "paranoid" that mums at her kids' school would think she was using them for comic material.
Aoife Finneran, The Irish Sun, 1st October 2019Frayed review - like a nightmare on Ramsay Street
Samantha has a dream life in London. But when her husband dies in a sexually compromising situation, she ends up broke, desperate and Down Under.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 26th September 2019Frayed, Sky One, review
Despite a wobbly start, Frayed shows huge potential and while the jokes are few, they are funny.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 26th September 2019The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
Steve Coogan is the funniest Brit, coming second on the list, with American Tina Fey coming first. Once again, in a mirroring of a Channel 4 poll in 2007, Stewart Lee came 41st.
Hannah J Davies, Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Brian Logan and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th September 2019