Gap Year
- TV comedy drama
- E4
- 2017
- 8 episodes (1 series)
Comedy drama series about a motley gang of travellers embarking on a three month trip around Asia. Stars Anders Hayward, Tim Key, Alice Lee, Ade Oyefeso, Brittney Wilson and Rachel Redford
Press clippings
E4 pass on more Gap Year
Tom Basden told a podcast. "No, we're not doing more of that, no", adding "I don't hate that decision. I was sad that the channel didn't push it harder."
Jay Richardson, The Custard TV, 21st September 2017Review: E4's Gap Year gets one star
There are two legitimately funny moments in E4's latest attempt at capturing the hearts of a teenage/young-adult demographic, Gap Year. There were two. There were two total in a 40-minute show.
Charles Nurick, The Student Newspaper, 15th March 2017TV: Gap Year, E4, Episode 3 - Vietnam
Once again though it is Tim Key's Greg who has the most distinctive plotline.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 2017TV review: Gap Year, E4, Episode 2
Plenty of fast-paced action, some snappy dialogue and breath-taking aerial shots of tea plantations that make you go wow. Nice wok everyone.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd March 2017Gap Year review
Like its characters, Gap Year is a little wandering and aimless. While the first episode is a little ropey, it does show promise. At the very least, it looks set to offer a comical travelogue for anyone contemplating their own life-changing Asian adventure.
Steven Broadbent, Telly Binge, 28th February 2017Gap Year is rather good, which is (again) minorly mystifying, as the eight-part comedy-drama is written by the team behind the savagely underwhelming "Rome-com" Plebs. It's hugely helped by the presence of Tim Key, possibly our most undervalued TV comic talent since Kevin Eldon, and features near-credible characters getting into near-credible gap-year situations, the spoilt bastards, and being, entirely credibly, less than super-witty about it all, just like life.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 26th February 2017Gap Year review - silly and puerile, but in a good way
This new comedy perfectly captures the backpacker obsession with bowel movements and the search for 'authenticity'.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 24th February 2017It's not clear why this comedy drama by Tom Basden - creator of Plebs, writer of Fresh Meat and one quarter of 00s sketch group Cowards - is called Gap Year, seeing as nobody involved is on one. Instead, it follows two mates travelling around China over the summer and the people they meet there. Compared with Basden's previous work, this opener feels disappointingly pedestrian - barring every word uttered by annoying Brit Greg (the inimitable Tim Key), that is.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 23rd February 2017Preview - Gap Year
Written by among other people the team behind ITV2 Roman sitcom Plebs, E4's latest comedy drama goes even further afield, although it brings it back to the present day.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 23rd February 2017TV Review: Gap Year, E4
I could pretty much watch anything that Tim Key is in, so I'm glad he is in Gap Year. I'm not sure if I'd have stuck with the opening episode without his moon-faced grin popping up soon after the start as irritating hanger-on Greg.
Beyond The Joke, 23rd February 2017