Press clippings Page 20
TV: Gap Year, E4, Episode 3 - Vietnam
Once again though it is Tim Key's Greg who has the most distinctive plotline.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 2017TV review: Gap Year, E4, Episode 2
Plenty of fast-paced action, some snappy dialogue and breath-taking aerial shots of tea plantations that make you go wow. Nice wok everyone.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd March 2017Gap Year review
Like its characters, Gap Year is a little wandering and aimless. While the first episode is a little ropey, it does show promise. At the very least, it looks set to offer a comical travelogue for anyone contemplating their own life-changing Asian adventure.
Steven Broadbent, Telly Binge, 28th February 2017Gap Year is rather good, which is (again) minorly mystifying, as the eight-part comedy-drama is written by the team behind the savagely underwhelming "Rome-com" Plebs. It's hugely helped by the presence of Tim Key, possibly our most undervalued TV comic talent since Kevin Eldon, and features near-credible characters getting into near-credible gap-year situations, the spoilt bastards, and being, entirely credibly, less than super-witty about it all, just like life.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 26th February 2017Review: Pls Like, BBC Three, YouTube, Episode Three
Williams redeems himself through the clever way he has Liam and Millipede unite against the formidable power of James Wirm. Through the musical dimension of this strange, strange vlogging sphere, William manages to balance his 'on-brand' cynicism with a genuine sense of enquiry and engagement.
Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2017Gap Year review - silly and puerile, but in a good way
This new comedy perfectly captures the backpacker obsession with bowel movements and the search for 'authenticity'.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 24th February 2017It's not clear why this comedy drama by Tom Basden - creator of Plebs, writer of Fresh Meat and one quarter of 00s sketch group Cowards - is called Gap Year, seeing as nobody involved is on one. Instead, it follows two mates travelling around China over the summer and the people they meet there. Compared with Basden's previous work, this opener feels disappointingly pedestrian - barring every word uttered by annoying Brit Greg (the inimitable Tim Key), that is.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 23rd February 2017Preview - Gap Year
Written by among other people the team behind ITV2 Roman sitcom Plebs, E4's latest comedy drama goes even further afield, although it brings it back to the present day.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 23rd February 2017TV Review: Gap Year, E4
I could pretty much watch anything that Tim Key is in, so I'm glad he is in Gap Year. I'm not sure if I'd have stuck with the opening episode without his moon-faced grin popping up soon after the start as irritating hanger-on Greg.
Beyond The Joke, 23rd February 2017What the stars of 'Gap Year' did on their gap year
As a Brit with a few travels under his belt, comedian and writer Tom Basden knows whereof he speaks. He also has the self-awareness to acknowledge it, not least through his new eight-part comedy drama.
Gabriel Tate, i Newspaper, 22nd February 2017