Bad Sugar
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2012
- 1 pilot
Spoof telenovela style melodrama written by Bain & Armstrong, and starring Olivia Colman, Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan. Also features Peter Serafinowicz, Reece Shearsmith, David Bradley, Kayvan Novak, Derek Riddell and more.
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Julia Davis stars alongside Olivia Colman and Sharon Horgan in a spoof of Latin American telenovelas from Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. Sending up a genre that's already a send-up of itself is a tough ask, but they pull it off.
Keith Watson, Metro, 24th August 2012Comedy fans, prepare to be excited. This new pilot has impeccable pedigree, being written by Peep Show's Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and starring three of our funniest actresses: Olivia Colman (Rev.), Julia Davis (Nighty Night) and Sharon Horgan (Pulling). It's a soapy spoof melodrama - think Dallas done by French and Saunders - about a rich, dysfunctional mining dynasty. Cue face-slapping, bitching and deliberately clumsy exposition.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 24th August 2012Olivia Colman: 'I like that she's not quite right'
Olivia Colman teams up with Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan for Bad Sugar, a wickedly funny new black comedy about a dysfunctional mining dynasty from the writers of Peep Show.
What's On TV, 21st August 2012Olivia Colman, Julia Davis, Sharon Horgan to star in C4 pilot
Olivia Colman, Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan are set to star in Bad Sugar, a new Channel 4 sitcom pilot written by Peep Show's Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.
British Comedy Guide, 1st December 2011