Shaun Pye
- Actor, writer, producer and script editor
Press clippings Page 3
There She Goes review
Sensitive parenting comedy with a spiky edge.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 9th July 2020There She Goes series 2 review
It's not always an easy watch, but on its new home on BBC Two, There She Goes deserves to be seen.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 9th July 2020There She Goes, series 2, episode 1, review
Finding hope, humour and joy in the bleakest situation.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 9th July 2020Shaun Pye on putting his life on screen
As the TV comedy series returns, its co-writer talks to Ben Dowell about its inspiration -- his learning-disabled daughter, Joey.
Ben Dowell, The Times, 1st July 2020Tim Renkow comedy Jerk to return
Jerk, the BBC Three sitcom starring Tim Renkow, is to return for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 5th September 2019There She Goes moved to BBC Two for new series
David Tennant and Jessica Hynes will return for a second series of comedy drama There She Goes, now moving to BBC Two.
British Comedy Guide, 21st August 2019Review: Jerk, BBC Three
BBC Three has come up with a pocket-sized gem in Jerk. Following a one-off pilot in 2016, this is only a four-part series but there's a surprisingly pleasing arc to it as we go from squirming at the main character Tim's behaviour to cheering him on at the end. As they say, we laugh and we learn.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st March 2019There She Goes episode 5, review
David Tennant convincingly goes against type as an ugly, unfunny drunk.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 13th November 2018There She Goes is a triumph, itch-lousy with one-liners, heartache, bathos, curses and much spilt milk, as far from mawkish as, say, David Sedaris is from the language of Hallmark cards.
Shaun Pye's new sitcom exploring his own experiences/trials with his daughter, born with an undiagnosed chromosomal disorder, was gutsily and refreshingly honest, as befits someone who writes for Frankie Boyle (he was also Ricky Gervais's thespy nemesis in Extras). His lines, as delivered by David Tennant and Jessica Hynes - we all knew Tennant could do comedy; few suspected Hynes could do serious: she's a revelation - manage to be both bitter, frustrated, loving to the ends of the Earth and very and occasionally filthily funny. Tennant's Simon can't smack Rosie (Miley Locke), though she is battering an endless hole in the wall with the door handle - seriously, determinedly, rhythmically; it's better than most X-Factor finals. He takes it out on her favourite toy, a hippo, and, my, there's anger there, the beseeching "be normal" anger of a parent of course but, given Rosie's problems, it's like watching an overtuned Stradivarius, one ratchet suddenly turned too tight, and everything will collapse in a welter of discord and broken spruce.
They survive. As people do. They seek advice: most of it, as ever, simplistic and blindingly obvious, to the extent that one sometimes wonders whether the authorities are actually pleased that families might have brains of their own, or are in fact repelled by the very concept. It's a glorious watch.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 21st October 2018Reviews: There She Goes; This Country
A TV show can be written with the best of intentions, made with love, commitment and an all-star cast, and yet sometimes this isn't enough.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 17th October 2018