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Comedy writer Tim Reid's Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
Tim Reid is the co-writer of Peter Kay's and currently hosts the podcast Fist Of Firsts, in which comedy names talk their backstories and their creative process.
Chortle, 1st May 2024Meet The Richardsons returning for two more series
Meet The Richardsons is returning for two more series on Dave, with 20 new episodes ordered.
British Comedy Guide, 12th May 2022Meet The Richardsons review
Sofa, so good for this comedy couple.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 8th April 2021Peter Kay's Car Share car up for sale
The centrepiece Fiat 500 car from Peter Kay and Sian Gibson's hit sitcom Car Share is to be auctioned for charity.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd January 2021Meet The Richardsons review
If you were looking for a British answer to Larry David, you could do worse than set-in-his-ways curmudgeon Jon Richardson.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th February 2020Meet The Richardsons review
Two married comedians do scripted reality. Sounds like a treat. Who better to send up the sort of bilge they broadcast on ITV Be than two nimble wits?
Lottie Young, Evening Standard, 27th February 2020A marriage made in comedy heaven
Desiree Ibekwe meets the team behind Dave's semi-scripted peek into the lives of married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont.
Desiree Ibekwe, Broadcast, 26th February 2020Dave orders sitcom starring Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont
Husband and wife Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont will star in Meet The Richardsons, a new Dave sitcom based on their fictional life.
British Comedy Guide, 11th June 2019Peter Kay's Car Share to finish after Series 2?
Speaking to Digital Spy at last night's BAFTA TV Awards nominees party, Paul Coleman - who devised the show with Tim Reid - said that he doesn't envisage a long run.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy, 22nd April 2016Sometimes the simplest things work best. Car Share is essentially a two-hander about fortysomethings John and Kayleigh; Peter Kay is grumpy singleton John, the manager of a Lancashire superstore, Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) one of his staff whose life, despite her ambition and hard work, seems to be going nowhere. Forced to share their daily commute by their employers, the two at first seemed ill matched, but through the six episodes a touching love story emerges - and the audience see long before them that John and Kayleigh are made for each other.
It was fantastic comedy too, with many of the harder laughs coming from the radio station Kayleigh insisted John's radio should be tuned to - Forever FM - with its atrocious local ads and a slew of Eighties hits they sang along to. There were also wry laughs from the contrast of John's world-weariness with Kayleigh lack of worldliness, not least when she was terribly confused that a man whose handle on a dating site was "Pussy Lover" was not fond of cats.... I initially had my doubts about the fantasy sequences, but theye were sparingly and well used. It's an exquisite piece of work - beautifully written by Paul Coleman and Tim Reid, with contributions from Gibson and Kay (who also directed) - a subtle, slow-burn romance that made viewers laugh and cry, and demanded to be watched again immediately to savour its worth.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st December 2015