Stephen Merchant
- 49 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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The Outlaws review
These Outlaws are so confused... I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 26th October 2021TV review: The Outlaws, BBC One
There are a few cliches - the central casting council estate gang for example - but this is a very watchable, very surprising addition to Stephen Merchant's post-Office CV.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th October 2021The Outlaws review
It's a wonder no one thought of this before. Community service is a perfect premise for a sitcom: an opportunity to mix up characters from all walks of life in a situation they can't get out of... at least not until their sentences are served.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th October 2021The Outlaws review
Christopher Walken runs riot in brilliantly silly crime comedy.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 25th October 2021The Outlaws review
Christopher Walken does community service in slightly naff misfit comedy.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 25th October 2021The Outlaws, BBC1, review
Stephen Merchant's sitcom tries too hard not to be The Office.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 25th October 2021The Outlaws review
Star-studded Stephen Merchant series is Walken in a cringe comedy wonderland.
Harry Fletcher, Metro, 25th October 2021How Stephen Merchant took comedy to the dark side
Mix a hard-nosed businessman, a left-wing activist and a cocaine-fuelled social media star and you don't exactly have a foolproof-sounding recipe for friendship. But Stephen Merchant's latest TV series The Outlaws isn't quite what it seems. It features a group of disparate characters thrown together to complete community service.
Emma Saunders, BBC, 24th October 2021Stephen Merchant: the big interview
On The Outlaws and unusual first meeting with Christopher Walker.
Kelly-Anne Taylor, Radio Times, 23rd October 2021Stephen Merchant interview
"I see The Outlaws as a suburban, low-rent western."
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 23rd October 2021