Gobble
- TV comedy
- BBC One
- 1997
- 1 episode
Just before Christmas, Britain is hit by a potentially lethal food crisis - "mad turkey disease". A government official seeks out the truth. Stars Kevin Whately, Keith Barron, Jack Dee, Peter Egan, Nicholas Jones and more.
Press clippings
Gobble, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's overblown comedy about a food scare, was intended for Christmas but postponed as people were actually dying at the time as a result of E coli. It is a difficult play to place. Today, for instance, the entertainingly named Hogg is defending his handling of mad cow disease in the Commons. At any old time, Gobble seems to be in encouragingly poor taste.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 17th February 1997