Ill Behaviour

Cancer comedy Ill Behaviour is a brilliant fantasia

I admit it: They got me. I love Ill Behaviour. I love it!

BBC dark comedy Ill Behaviour finds home on showtime

Gross-out humor and cancer--do they blend?

Ill Behaviour: Showtime importing BBC comedy-thriller

Showtime is importing the BBC comedy-thriller Ill Behaviour stateside, premiering the six-part series as early as next month.

Ill Behaviour Series 1 review

Drastic and outlandish, Sam Bain's Ill Behaviour is a punchy comedic rollercoaster.

Ill Behaviour, released in splurge-form on iPlayer, is that rather rare thing, a comedy about cancer. Its from the pen of Peep Show's Sam Bain, features similar semi-likable misfits, and despite some grinding of gears, ultimately succeeds in treating both cancer, and comedy, in grown-up fashion.

What the plot lacked in anything approaching credibility it more than made up in its skewering of "alternative" medicine, god rot it. Coming after weeks in which staff at Great Ormond Street have had death threats from courageous keyboard warriors, a choice corrective, with some delicious lines, and also Lizzy Caplan.

Review, Ill Behaviour, iPlayer

Ill Behaviour is written by Peep Show's co-creator Sam Bain, but if anyone is expecting a laugh-a-minute sitcom about flatsharing misfits think again. Ill Behaviour is far more ambitious and original than that. Not as funny as Peep Show, but then I don't think that is its intention.

Ill Behaviour, review

The chuckles are broad but the grisly nihilism is rather unpalatable.

Why Peep Show's Sam Bain made cancer-com Ill Behaviour

The comedy writer describes the awkward Britishness and radical thinking that informed his new series, in which a man with Hodgkin's lymphoma is locked in a cellar by his best friends.

Ill Behaviour review

Countless series have used the disease as an exploitative shortcut to sadness but it is encoded into every scene of this new funny and relentlessly immoral thriller.