Hold The Sunset
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2018 - 2019
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Alison Steadman, John Cleese and Jason Watkins star in this sitcom as a widow, her boyfriend, and her adult son who has moved back home. Also features Rosie Cavaliero, Joanna Scanlan, Anne Reid, James Cosmo, Peter Egan and more.
Streaming rank this week: 7,250
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John Cleese's sitcom return fizzes with comic energy
This was one of those wonderful programmes about everything and nothing - love, getting on with getting on, and simply taking a deep breath and adjusting as best you can when things don't quite turn out the way you'd hoped. Who can't relate to that?
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph, 18th February 2018Hold the Sunset, BBC One, review - this is an ex-sitcom
John Cleese and Alison Steadman star in the exhumation of long-lost genre.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 18th February 2018Preview: Hold The Sunset
It is pretty big news that John Cleese has returned to the BBC to star in a new sitcom for the first time since Fawlty Towers. So it's a relief to say that Hold The Sunset is not a painful attempt to recreate the anarchic brilliance of his seventies heyday.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th February 2018TV review: Hold the Sunset
After 39 years away, John Cleese returns to the sitcom format with a cosy affair.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 16th February 2018Hold The Sunset review
In truth, it's not rip-roaringly, gut-bustingly, eye-wateringly funny. But it is rather lovely. It's wry, and gentle, and old fashioned. It is warm and affectionate and optimistic.
Benjie Goodhart, Saga Magazine, 15th February 2018The return of John Cleese
"If I ever tried to do a Fawlty Towers-type sitcom again, everyone would say, 'It's not as good as Fawlty Towers'."
The Fawlty Towers actor, who is fondly remembered for his role as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, is starring with Alison Steadman in a new BBC sitcom, Hold Tthe Sunset, after a gap of 43 years.
James Rampton, The Independent, 13th February 2018John Cleese and Alison Steadman to star in new BBC sitcom
John Cleese, Alison Steadman and Jason Watkins are to star in Edith, a new BBC One sitcom about a widow and her ex-boyfriend.
British Comedy Guide, 11th April 2017John Cleese to star in new BBC sitcom Edith
John Cleese reportedly looks set to star in Edith, a new bittersweet romantic BBC comedy series.
British Comedy Guide, 16th October 2016