Home (2017)

How sitcom Home humanises the migrant crisis

A family find a Syrian man hiding in their boot in Rufus Jones's comedy. It's a warm-hearted riposte to years of 'terrifying' anti-immigrant rhetoric, he says.

Home, episode 1, review

Gentle variation on the sitcom.

Home: review

This fish-out-of-water comedy about a family who take in an asylum seeker feels timely but mild-mannered to a fault. Where's the conviction?

TV review: Home

Home boasts snappy dialogue and some great jokes, but most of all it oozes humanity, Sami, of course, is just like us.

Rufus Jones on his new sitcom Home

Rufus Jones has written his first series about a Syrian refugee who is taken in by a family in Surrey.

Rufus Jones: Why I wrote Home

I can't quite remember where the inspiration for Home came from. I started writing in the Autumn of 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe.

Rufus Jones interview

"When you're dealing with this subject matter you have to make sure that the jokes travel in the right direction."

After last year's well-received Comedy Blap (Channel 4's fancy name for a short, if you were wondering), Rufus Jones's sitcom about a family who unknowingly return from a holiday in France with a Syrian refugee (Youssef Kerkour) in their boot receives a full series. Its tone is gentle rather than stridently satirical - understandable given the subject matter - but the gags are strong, the performances are likeable and the issues depicted could not be more timely.