Home (2017)
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4 / Comedy Blaps
- 2017 - 2020
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Comedy about a family who allow a Syrian asylum seeker to live with them. Stars Youssef Kerkour, Rufus Jones, Rebekah Staton, Oaklee Pendergast, Aaron Neil and more.
Press clippings
Rufus Jones says Home revival is possible
Though it won't be returning on Channel 4, writer/actor Jones confirms that his comedy could be revived on a streaming platform. "There is a conversation to be had".
Radio Times, 12th May 2021Home axed by Channel 4
Channel 4 has axed asylum seeker sitcom Home after two series, its creator, writer and star, Rufus Jones, has announced.
British Comedy Guide, 6th May 2021London Hughes up for South Bank breakthrough award
London Hughes has been shortlisted in the breakthrough category in the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2020. Meanwhile the comedy category features Fleabag, Sex Education and Home.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd November 2020I Talk Telly Awards 2020 nominations
After Life, Friday Night Dinner, Gavin & Stacey, Ghosts, Home, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees for the I Talk Telly Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 8th November 2020BAFTA TV Awards 2020 nominations
Catastrophe, Derry Girls, Fleabag and Stath Lets Flats are amongst the nominees in the BAFTA TV Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 4th June 2020Channel 4's comedy Home continues to delight to an absurd degree. Sami looks bound to get at least one girl, despite hardly trying: he's just a thoughtful, kind, funny man. Douglas Henshall is appearing now as an appalling ex, a smug, entitled irritant; it's as far as an actor can come from Shetland's Jimmy Perez and still own the same face.
He's just one of the cast strengths in Rufus Jones's little ensemble sitcom. Another highlight was an unimpeachable extended discussion between Sami (Youssef Kerkour) and his shopkeeper pal Raj, two non-drinking immigrants, about the perfect British pub. Warm, thought-provoking, clever without clever-clever, always.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 1st March 2020Comedy skewers our immigration dilemma
A Channel 4 sitcom about a Syrian refugee in suburbia might sound worthy but it brilliantly pokes fun at our fears.
Libby Purves, The Times, 17th February 2020Youssef Kerkour interview
It's testament to Home's success that the 41-year-old actor, born and raised in Morocco before graduating from college in New York and moving to England at the age of 23, has been popping up in all manner of classy fare since.
Metro, 11th February 2020TV review: Home
Home, the series Rufus Jones has created and written about a Syrian refugee who winds up in Dorking is truly nimble and brilliant.
Camilla Long, The Sunday Times, 9th February 2020Home review
Bad comedy on telly is hardly unusual, but it's rare to see something so dreadful it's actually nauseating. The speeches about Britain's asylum laws, not to mention gay rights in Nigeria, came almost as a relief.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 6th February 2020