Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!

Milton Jones stars in Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (still don't know if that exclam should be in the title, other than implied: it does a mild disservice to Jones in that he admittedly writes with exuberance and gag-a-heartbeat punning, but delivers with an unbeatable dryness). Milton, in this opener - happy Wednesday early-evening nights in the bath again for me, whew - launched a wedding business. Featuring a bride who looked the spit of Robert De Niro. It was a knowing joy to listen to the conniptions the writers had twisted themselves into to include references to I think every film in De Niro's oeuvre.

Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 22nd February 2014

Radio Times review

The English language receives a shakedown as Milton Jones exercises his word play to left-field extremes that make Lewis Carroll seem tame. Sometimes it is a simple description - like calling a church "a huge stone refrigerator" - that sets his mind wandering. But when he starts playing with the sound and meaning of words, the fun really starts.

In this opening episode he decides to launch a wedding business, but for Jones a groom is someone who works with horses, not a husband-to-be. The comic and dramatic support from Tom Goodman-Hill, as Milton's long-suffering flatmate, is invaluable and there are some particularly fine moments in a running theme about the bride looking like Robert De Niro. Their attempts to work De Niro film titles into every conversation with her are superb.

Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 19th February 2014