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 Page 2
The comedy about Syrian asylum seeker Sami returns, eight months on from his arrival in the UK. Sami (Youssef Kerkour) is still waiting for his right to remain and in the meantime is getting impatient with his hosts Katy (Rebekah Staton) and Peter (Rufus Jones). An earnest if heavy-handed opener.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 5th February 2020Home, Channel 4, review
Series is high on drama and lacking in laughs for Syrian refugee Sami.
Barbara Speed, i Newspaper, 5th February 2020Home, series 2 episode 1 review
Don't be put off by the premise - Rufus Jones's comedy is a delight.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 5th February 2020Rufus Jones: the "terrifying" challenge of writing home
"Writing never feels easy, so you may as well write about something that matters," says writer/star of the acclaimed comedy.
Morgan Jeffery, Radio Times, 5th February 2020Rufus Jones on making a version of Home for the USA
"Ben Stiller contacted us and said it was perfect. It all gets shaken around now and if it doesn't happen there [at NBC] we will do it somewhere else. Ben is very committed to it in a very flattering way."
Deadline, 5th February 2020Youssef Kerkour interview
Home star Youssef Kerkour on why the sitcom's success means he no longer has to play jihadists.
Stephen Armstrong, The Times, 1st February 2020Rufus Jones interview
The one response that I never quite bargained for was the amount of people who said that they watched it as a family.
I Talk Telly, 30th January 2020Douglas Henshall joins the cast of Home
Douglas Henshall (Shetland, Iona, In Plain Sight) will play Elliot, John's dad and Katy's ex-husband in the returning Channel 4 comedy series Home.
Channel 4, 24th January 2020Opinion: top TV comedies 2019
Mostly below, in no particular order, are the shows that simply made me laugh the most this year. Shows that totally tickled my funny bone first and didn't necessarily do anything else.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st December 2019