British Comedy Guide
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock

  • 91 years old
  • English
  • Actor and author

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The enduringly likable panel show trundles cheerfully on. This week's guests for the good-natured fib-fest are Stephen Mangan, Mark Bonnar, Sheila Hancock and Anita Rani but, as ever, the show truly hits its stride when Lee Mack and David Mitchell lock horns and engage their counterintuitive comic chemistry. There are vanishingly few things we can rely on in today's bewildering world but it seems this programme is one of them.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 27th November 2017

Sky confirms more Urban Myths episodes

Jack Whitehall, Ade Edmondson, David Suchet, Noel Fielding, Sheila Hancock and Philip Glenister are amongst the stars of Sky Arts' 2018 Urban Myths episodes.

British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2017

Sheridan Smith stars in Jo Brand film The More You Ignore Me

Sheridan Smith is to take the lead role in The More You Ignore Me, the new comedy drama film written by Jo Brand.

British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2016

Cast announced for Dawn French's Delicious

Emilia Fox, Iain Glen and Sheila Hancock have joined the cast of Delicious, the Sky series in which Dawn French will play a cook.

British Comedy Guide, 4th August 2016

Radio Times review

It's business as usual for the final episode, which is to say moments of brilliance and stretches that go a bit tepid. But that's the deal with Toast: you put up with the iffy bits for the occasional dash of comic glory you wouldn't find anywhere else.

Our luckless curmudgeon gets a job at the Globe in a production of Twelfth Night by radical director Daz Klondyke. It's to be performed by a cast of dogs as "a metaphor for what's happening in Syria". Yes, it's daft, but if you want an idea of the series' celebrity fans, look out for cameos from Jude Law, Martin Freeman, Sheila Hancock and others. They're all basically agreeing that Toast is, as Sam Mendes puts it, "a colossal t**t".

David Butcher, Radio Times, 16th December 2015

Barking In Essex review

Sheila Hancock, Lee Evans and Keeley Hawes star in Clive Exton's ill-judged black farce.

Paul Taylor, The Independent, 17th September 2013

Frank Skinner's role as judge and jury seems inconsequential in tonight's final show of the series - its all about the verbal sparring that breaks out between the guests.

Comedian Jon Richardson is in the firing line, declared dull by Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood for wanting to dump dancing into Room 101, who then gets up actress Sheila Hancock's nose by admitting he buys scented candles - one of her pet hates.

It just leaves Skinner to bring the curtain down with a Macarena.

Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 22nd February 2013

There's a lot of sniping between the guests in this edition and it's this, rather than their arguments for putting scented candles, house guests, wedding speeches and the like into Room 101, that produces the most laughs. It's perhaps inevitable that when Jon Richardson says he never dances, describing it as "arrogant walking", Craig Revel Horwood responds waspishly that Jon is "probably one of the dullest people I've ever sat next to". However, following that up by making joke-telling one of his pet hates is a bit strong. Even Sheila Hancock joins in the teasing, albeit inadvertently, until she gets threatened with being consigned to oblivion herself.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 22nd February 2013

Actress Sheila Hancock, Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and comedian Jon Richardson are the final celebrities bidding for their bêtes noires to be consigned to oblivion tonight. A sassy Hancock proves good value on subjects such as her aversion to fireworks and scented candles, although Revel Horwood lives up to his mean persona by insulting Richardson throughout, and even puts forward joke-telling as one of his pet hates, which creates a bit of an atmosphere. Although unfunny guests do tend to dampen the fun, host Frank Skinner's impromptu joshing largely makes up for the deficit of laughs.

Vicki Power, The Telegraph, 21st February 2013

Lee Evans to star in new stage show

Lee Evans is to star as a dumb gangster in Barking In Essex, a new comic play for 2013 alongside Sheila Hancock.

British Comedy Guide, 30th November 2012

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