Happiness
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 2001 - 2003
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom starring Paul Whitehouse as a man facing a mid-life crisis after his wife is killed. Also features Fiona Allen, Mark Heap, Clive Russell, Pearce Quigley, Johnny Vegas and more.
Press clippings
Elsewhere, on the evidence of episode one alone, it's hard to know what to make of Happiness (BBC2), Paul Whitehouse's midlife-crisis comedy-drama. There's precious little happiness, and only brief smatterings of (genuinely funny) comedy in it, but there is plenty of angst.
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 17th March 2001