Back To Life
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Three
- 2019 - 2021
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy starring Daisy Haggard as a woman looking to rebuild her life after a long prison sentence. Also features Adeel Akhtar, Geraldine James, Richard Durden, Christine Bottomley, Jo Martin and more.
Streaming rank this week: 1,703
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If you like your sitcoms to hurt, and that's very much the fashion this year, Back To Life promises do the job. It won't make your ribs ache -- just your heart.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 23rd April 2019Daisy Haggard interview
"I look forward to a time where people don't need to compare female voices on television because there'll be so many of them."
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 21st April 2019Back To Life review
The wintry coast of Kent provides a suitably chilly backdrop. With considerable poise, and none of the gurning she deployed in Episodes, Haggard walks that line so well trodden by Phoebe Waller-Bridge between awkward comedy and deep pathos. The first episode passes a key test: you are intrigued to know more, and you care.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 16th April 2019Review: Back to Life, BBC Three/BBC One
Not exacly a laugh riot, but there is more than enough going on here to keep me watching.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th April 2019You'll love Back To Life
We follow Miri as she adjusts to life in her first few weeks out of prison.
Jazmin Kopotsha, Refinery 29, 15th April 2019Back to Life, review
Daisy Haggard stars in and created this sitcom about a woman in her late thirties adjusting to the world after 18 years in prison.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 15th April 2019Interview with director Christopher Sweeney
Christopher Sweeney talks more about how they made Back To Life, and what it was like to film his first TV series.
British Comedy Guide, 15th April 2019Daisy Haggard and Adeel Akhtar interview
Haggard says public attitudes to women who commit crimes fascinate her: "I was always really interested in how harshly we judge a woman who has done a bad thing over how we judge men."
BBC, 12th April 2019Daisy Haggard interview
Back To Life: the unlikely comedy about life after 18 years in prison, according to creator Daisy Haggard.
Laura Martin, i Newspaper, 12th April 2019