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Channel 4 orders Series 4 of Friday Night Dinner
Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Friday Night Dinner, its award-winning sitcom starring Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Paul Ritter, Tamsin Greig and Mark Heap.
British Comedy Guide, 17th April 2015You can still revisit every episode of the innovative, critically acclaimed sitcom following the often surreal lives of the staff at the East Hampton Hospital. Stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt have achieved much since.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 20th March 2015The double Bafta-winning sitcom from the early Noughties is available in its entirety to watch on Channel 4's on-demand site. Dylan Moran is at his sardonic best as an anti-social bookshop owner, while Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig star as his less misanthropic, equally eccentric friends.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 20th March 2015Video: actress Tamsin Greig on 'posh' actors
Actress Tamsin Greig has said people who have money and contacts will have more opportunities in the performing arts than those who do not. Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, she said: "It's about opportunity. People who have money and address books are going to have opportunities that a lot of people don't."
Andrew Marr, BBC News, 1st February 2015Tamsin Greig webchat - post your questions now
The comic actor, currently appearing in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the West End, is joining us to answer your questions in a webchat from noon onwards on Tuesday 3 February.
The Guardian, 30th January 2015Tamsin Greig jokes about idea of a Green Wing musical
Tamsin Greig has joked that Green Wing would make a good musical.
Frances Taylor and Jamie Harris, Digital Spy, 13th January 2015Tamsin Greig interview: her musical debut
Comic actress Tamsin Greig is about to make her musical theatre debut in London's West End in a musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-nominated film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
BBC News, 4th December 2014Lou (Harry Landis) - the elderly "gentleman" who grandma (Frances Cuka) dated in series two - inexplicably reappeared in churlish fashion a few episodes back to berate her "punk rocker" grandsons among others. Now the purpose for his return is clear, with the pair's wedding providing the ideal excuse for full-blown shambles as series three comes to a close. Joyous cries of Mazel Tov seem unlikely as the couple head up the aisle, much to the dismay of Jackie and Martin (Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter).
Hannah J. Davies, The Guardian, 25th July 2014Radio Times review
Plot twists! Mad monologues! Laugh-out-loud moments! Once again, Episodes builds up a head of comic steam just in time for… the end of a series. It's as if the writers work back from the finale and use previous instalments to fill in gaps. Fair enough if you're writing, say, a conspiracy thriller, but odd with a sitcom, where you need to fire zingers each week.
All the same, it's a joy to see Tamsin Greig given some comic red meat for a change. Moaning and snarking has become Beverly's default mode, from which Greig can work wonders, but now things kick up a gear. Her and Sean's script is suddenly the hottest thing in Hollywood, but Beverly doesn't care. She wants out. Cue a lovely, farcical climax with a furious routine from Beverly about Hollywood power games, using a china teacup as a prop.
It's not the only set piece of the episode. Elsewhere crazy network boss Castor lays into the TV business from another angle, in a public implosion that ends with the memorable sign-off, "How about that, my zombies?!"
David Butcher, Radio Times, 9th July 2014Radio Times review
In this episode we meet Matt LeBlanc's dad, his imaginary screen dad, in the best scene of the series so far. Stories have appeared on TMZ that Matt has gone into rehab, and Matt knows where they came from: he forgot to send dad his cheque, and this is revenge. So he storms round there - with Sean and Beverly in tow - to confront him.
What follows has more comic voltage than the entirety of some previous episodes, as the pair trade insults in front of the mortified Brits - and few actors do mortified better than Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan. It's a cracking set piece and elsewhere the plot is coming to a boil nicely. Also, look out: in the delightfully tasteless mental health storyline, unbalanced network boss Castor is off his meds.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 2nd July 2014