Simon Farnaby
- 51 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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Simon Farnaby on new BBC comedy Ghosts
The co-creator and star of Horrible Histories and Yonderland talks to Alexandra Pollard about his haunting new comedy, writing Paddington 2, and the "s**t-show" that is Brexit.
Alexandra Pollard, The Independent, 15th April 2019TV review: Ghosts, BBC One
Not so much spine-tingling as spine-tickling comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th April 2019Ghosts review
The new show from Horrible Histories may be the most unlikely comedy spinoff since Frasier, but what a glorious romp.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 15th April 2019Ghosts, review
A young couple inherit a country pile and move in to start repairs. Its resident gaggle of bored ghosts have other ideas.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 15th April 2019This Time with Alan Partridge, episode 2, review
This is television comedy for the connoisseur.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 4th March 2019Paddington 3 in development
A third Paddington Bear film is in development, producer David Heyman has confirmed.
British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2018Original Horrible Histories team become Ghosts
BBC One has announced a new sitcom about a group of ghosts, created, written by and starring the original Horrible Histories group of leads, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018Paddington 2 & Death Of Stalin receive BAFTA nominations
Paddington 2 and The Death Of Stalin have been nominated for two awards each at the BAFTA Film Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2018I'm relieved to recall I whacked Detectorists on to last week's "10 best" of 2017 TV, so needn't convince you of what a beautiful respite from the rest of the year it has been: its lack of judgmentalism, its gentle tolerance of human frailty, its being gallantly unafraid of silence, at spiritual poles to febrile Twitter spats, to endless virtue signalling and 24-hour offence-taking. The last-ever series (we're told) ended with the closest it could ever come to "villains", the pitifully pompous "Simon and Garfunkel" (last season, in an inspired little twist, they had to give their real names to police: Peters and Lee) being welcomed into the arms of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club, not without a few grateful tears on behalf of Garfunkel, the splendid Simon Farnaby. Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones) didn't, quite, get to do the "gold dance" at the close... cleverly, the high camera simply lingered, ambiguously, on the magpie's tree, as, coin by coin, then in a rush, it began to shed its secrets on to the sward below.
The very last drone-camera shot had the boys, alerted by some sixth sense, ambling towards the tree. I'm tempted to beg for more, but begin to wonder if creator Crook isn't quite right to leave it at this: perfect, and thus unimprovable, a treasure to be simply yearned over with wry wistfulness. Pub? Yeah, go on then.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 17th December 2017Simon Farnaby to write The Magic Faraway Tree movie
Simon Farnaby is writing a film adaption of Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree.
The Velvet Onion, 20th November 2017