Sharon Horgan

A love letter to BBC Three's 'Pulling', ten years on

On the surface, Pulling sounds a bit like many of the sitcoms of the noughties - three 30-ish single women in the big city, trying to find their way in work, life and love. But where Sex and the City had cosmpolitans and weddings, Pulling had cat murder and funeral crashing.

Sharon Horgan on her production company

Pulling writer Sharon Horgan and producer Clelia Mountford talk branded content, transatlantic TV, and taking control of their own projects.

Interview: meet the Catastrophe couple

I'm sitting with these two pleasant people, Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan. I ask them, "Are you surprised that Catastrophe travels well? Surprised it got rave reviews in the U.S. and Canada?" "Yes," Delaney says. "I suppose I am surprised. We didn't make it with the U.S. or Canada in mind."

Radio Times review

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Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney gave birth to two series of this deliciously rude and crude sitcom. They played an Irish primary school teacher and a US ad man, called Sharon and - yep, you guessed it - Rob, who decided to give coupledom a go when their fling ends in an unplanned pregnancy. A motley crew of hilariously hideous friends supported them, including Carrie Fisher as the mother-in-law from hell, a silkily obnoxious Ashley Jensen, and Line of Duty's Mark Bonnar, who deserves a spin-off for his deadpan ripostes. But what really marked Horgan and Delaney's baby out is its bravery: Catastrophe gleefully made comedy out of delicate issues, like Sharon's decision to take a screening test for Down's syndrome, without making light of them.

We've always loved Sharon Horgan. We were massive Pulling fans and you know you're in safe hands whenever Sharon is attached to something. Catastrophe was the antidote to romantic comedy that had the misfortune to come before it. Crude, unflinching and with genuine heart, the series proved an instant hit for Channel 4 who commissioned a second series and rushed it out in October. Catastrophe was a breath of fresh air, Sharon and Rob clearly had a ball together and it made for a hugely enjoyable watch.

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan interviews

Catastrophe is No/ 4 in our end-of-year roundup. Here, the stars talk about filming sex scenes with friends, winning arguments by scary fast walking, and why the show is not really about bad things happening.

Best of TV 2015: No 4 - Catastrophe

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan's '49% autobiographical' comedy about the trials and tribulations of parenthood inverts the classic romcom with sexual honesty, a barrage of swearing and a wonderfully dysfunctional support cast.

With Sharon having kicked Rob out after he came clean about what happened at work with the flirty French woman, the second series of Horgan and Delaney's sitcom sees the pair thrown into a simulacrum of their dysfunctional single lives of about three years ago. Rob Delaney might be a capable foil, but Sharon Horgan is the real draw here; in her namesake she has created one of the most self-possessed, aspirational and intentionally funny women on television since Elaine in Seinfeld.