Gavin & Stacey
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / BBC Three
- 2007 - 2025
- 22 episodes (3 series)
A critic-pleasing, gentle and warm comedy about the romance between an Essex lad and Welsh girl. Stars Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Alison Steadman and more.
- Series 1, Episode 4 repeated at 9pm on U&W
Streaming rank this week: 219
Press clippings Page 13
BBC defends controversial episode of Gavin & Stacey
The BBC has issued another statement defending the use of the word "faggot" in the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special, after it was revealed that the incident drew more than 800 complaints.
Roisin O'Connor, The Independent, 10th January 2020Gavin & Stacey most-watched TV comedy in 17 years
The Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s, new audience figures show.
BBC, 2nd January 2020Gavin & Stacey special 'has been watched for 80 years'
New figures have revealed that the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special has already been watched for the equivalent of more than eight decades on the BBC iPlayer.
Female First, 31st December 2019Gavin & Stacey could return for a full series
After the Christmas special becomes the most popular Christmas Day TV programme of the decade, a co-star has revealed that James Corden is keen to make Series 4.
The Guardian, 30th December 2019Larry Lamb says Gavin & Stacey must be turned into film
Larry Lamb, 72, has branded Gavin & Stacey a 'national treasure', calling for it to be turned into a film after the Christmas special drew 12.3 million viewers.
The Mirror, 29th December 2019Gavin & Stacey returned, 10 years since the last sighting of the two merged families from Barry in Wales and Billericay in Essex, created by James Corden and Ruth Jones. Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page), our cash-and-carry Romeo and Juliet, were fighting to keep their flame alive, while Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) hyperventilated about Christmas dinner timings, and Pam (Alison Steadman) fretted about staying in Wales: "I'm not using Gwen's towels - it's like drying yourself with Ryvita."
Perhaps mindful of his overbearing international fame, Corden kept his character, Smithy, embedded in the cast, juggling a hypercritical new girlfriend and a marriage proposal from Nessa (Jones). When the plot edged into saccharine, Nessa was on hand to punch us back to earth, at one point musing on the sexual chemistry between her and Smithy: "On paper, it doesn't add up. But put us between the sheets and it's electric. We're like Hall and Oates, Morecambe and Wise, Mel and Sue..." At which point, I think that mince pie started coming back up.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 29th December 2019Review: Worzel Gummidge; Gavin & Stacey
Reviews of the Christmas TV from Hugo Rifkind.
Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 28th December 2019Fans convinced they've worked out Nessa's 'real age'
Following the highly-anticipated Christmas special of the beloved sitcom, viewers have done some calculations and think they've solved the mystery.
Kirsty McCormack, The Sun, 28th December 2019Gavin & Stacey Xmas Special got 11 Ofcom complaints
This year's Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special only received 11 Ofcom complaints over using a homophobic slur despite hundreds of complaints on social media.
Nika Shakhnazarova, The Mirror, 27th December 2019The Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special review
A rotund man who laughs at everything and just keeps giving gifts has saved Christmas. Yes, James Corden has united Britain in sitting on the sofa to watch the Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special. It was the biggest hit of the day and could go on to become the most watched show of the year.
Shouting At The Telly, 27th December 2019