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Intelligence: David Schwimmer will win few new Friends

On the evidence here, he might be better to stick to more dramatic roles like playing Robert Kardashian in The People vs. OJ Simpson.

James Croot, Stuff.co.nz, 8th June 2021

Intelligence, Sky One, review

The jokes came thick and fast, but not all of them landed.

Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 8th June 2021

Intelligence, series 2 episodes 1 & 2 review

Back for a second series, Sky One's Intelligence has all the right ingredients to be an excellent comedy. But it isn't.

Gabriel Tate, The Telegraph, 8th June 2021

Intelligence: predictable yet pleasurable comedy

Series two of the GCHQ-set farce, starring David Schwimmer, treads familiar ground.

Suzi Feay, The Financial Times, 4th June 2021

Vic Reeves & Morgana Robinson star in sitcom podcast

Vic Reeves and Morgana Robinson are amongst the cast of a new sitcom podcast by Tony Pitts. Robinson will also star in the upcoming second series of Sky's Intelligence.

British Comedy Guide, 14th January 2021

Intelligence is a new dark UK/US comedy about the intelligence services, starring David Schwimmer as a decidedly "Not Ross from Friends" type - brash, pompous, NSA agent Jerry Bernstein. Bernstein (who boasts having predicted 9/11) is transferred to our own cybercrime-tackling GCHQ in Cheltenham, only to find it peopled by a bunch of misfits, led by Chris (Sylvestra Le Touzel) and including over-friendly Joseph (Nick Mohammed, who also wrote the show).

A lot of the comedy in Intelligence comes from supposedly hyper-contrasting US and UK characteristics, which at first made it feel stiff and dated. The funniest moments came from Bernstein lording it over the Brits: "There's still this sense that I've wandered on to an abandoned farm." By the end of the double-episode opener, Intelligence (already commissioned for a second series) had warmed up considerably as a horror show of office dynamics.

Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 23rd February 2020

Intelligence review

The wait for TV to use Nick Mohammed to his full comic potential is finally over, thanks to Sky One's new sitcom, Intelligence. And all it took was him to write it himself and get David Schwimmer to agree to co-star.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st February 2020

Intelligence review - David Schwimmer is so squandered

The former Friends star and comic Nick Mohammed fight cyber-terrorism in Sky's comedy ... but their one-dimensional script and boilerplate plot are totally criminal.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 21st February 2020

Intelligence review, Sky One

David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed are the odd couple in this workplace comedy.

Ed Cumming, The Independent, 21st February 2020

Intelligence, review

David Schwimmer's amiable spy comedy is more Carry On than Le Carré.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 21st February 2020

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