Don't Forget The Driver

Don't Forget the Driver review

This new dark-comedy has bags of promise and potential.

Toby Jones and Tim Crouch interview

It's hard to tell a story about people smuggling through the lens of humour, but if anyone can do it, it's Toby Jones and his writing sidekick Tim Crouch.

Review: Don't Forget the Driver

Toby Jones stars in a new comedy-drama about... oh, never mind. That's all we need to know: 'Toby Jones.' It's going to be a good 'un.

Don't Forget the Driver, BBC Two, review

Trying to beat the Bognor blues.

Don't Forget The Driver review

Right now it's difficult to be engaged by the show, despite it being beautifully directed and containing a lot of concepts and themes which deserve to be explored in detail given the state of the world right now.

Review: Don't Forget the Driver

Don't Forget The Driver sets out to portray both the beauty and ugliness of small-town Britain but in doing so separately can often feel like a mixed bag, when in real life, and in the series in its better moments, these things can overlap or even be one in the same.

Toby Jones co-writes and stars in a state-of-the-nation comedy with a very broad brief: everything from Brexit to the migration crisis and the elderly care timebomb is covered in a tale of a coach driver who finds a refugee stowed in his wheel arch. The melancholic tone is offset by a curiously gaudy colour palette.

Toby Jones nobody wants a comedy about Brexit

Toby Jones has written his first sitcom, about a coach driver in Bognor Regis. He and his co-writer Tim Crouch talk politics and the past.

Don't Forget the Driver review

If you are sufficiently overawed by Jones' work and reputation, and intrigued by the eccentricities of the production, you'll want to keep on watching.

Don't Forget the Driver, BBC2, review

Toby Jones is affecting in melancholy comedy.