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Peter Kay's Car Share leads BAFTA TV Awards comedy nominations
Car Share leads the comedy related nominations in the 2016 BAFTA Television Awards shortlists. Other nominations include Chewing Gum, Peep Show and People Just Do Nothing.
British Comedy Guide, 30th March 2016Catastrophe and Chewing Gum both win multiple RTS Awards
Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, and Chewing Gum creator Michaela Coel, both won in two categories at the Royal Television Society awards.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2016A 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.
Jacki Badger, Cult Box, 16th March 2016Channel 4 orders comedy pilot The Circuit from Pulling creators
Channel 4 has ordered a comedy pilot from the writers of Pulling. The Circuit - which will star the likes of Adeel Akhtar and Nicola Walker - is about a terrible dinner party.
British Comedy Guide, 14th March 2016Sharon 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.
Gareth McLean, The Guardian, 13th March 2016Interview: 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."
John Doyle, The Globe and Mail, 19th January 2016Radio Times review
Radio Times Top 40 TV Shows of 2015, #3:
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.
Claire Webb, Radio Times, 30th December 2015We'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.
The Custard TV, 18th December 2015Rob 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.
Tim Lusher, The Guardian, 16th December 2015Best 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.
Will Dean, The Guardian, 14th December 2015