Intelligence
- TV sitcom
- Sky One / Sky Comedy
- 2020 - 2023
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom set in the UK government's surveillance centre. Stars David Schwimmer, Nick Mohammed, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Jane Stanness, Gana Bayarsaikhan and more.
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Sky backs comedies
Sky has reiterated its commitment to comedy, as work resumes on several of its shows. A fourth series of Brassic is being written, Breeders looks set to return for a third series, and drafting is underway on a third series of Intelligence. Further episodes of The Reluctant Landlord were also in development before the coronavirus pandemic struck.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd May 2021Vic Reeves & Morgana Robinson star in sitcom podcast
Vic Reeves and Morgana Robinson are amongst the cast of a new sitcom podcast by Tony Pitts. Robinson will also star in the upcoming second series of Sky's Intelligence.
British Comedy Guide, 14th January 2021I 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 2020Intelligence is a new dark UK/US comedy about the intelligence services, starring David Schwimmer as a decidedly "Not Ross from Friends" type - brash, pompous, NSA agent Jerry Bernstein. Bernstein (who boasts having predicted 9/11) is transferred to our own cybercrime-tackling GCHQ in Cheltenham, only to find it peopled by a bunch of misfits, led by Chris (Sylvestra Le Touzel) and including over-friendly Joseph (Nick Mohammed, who also wrote the show).
A lot of the comedy in Intelligence comes from supposedly hyper-contrasting US and UK characteristics, which at first made it feel stiff and dated. The funniest moments came from Bernstein lording it over the Brits: "There's still this sense that I've wandered on to an abandoned farm." By the end of the double-episode opener, Intelligence (already commissioned for a second series) had warmed up considerably as a horror show of office dynamics.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 23rd February 2020Intelligence review
If Intelligence is ever going to be more than vaguely watchable they need to ramp up the suggestion that Jerry suffers many a crisis of confidence quickly then, as right now it's a little bland.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 22nd February 2020Nick Mohammed pens and stars in this new comedy set within the secretive confines of the GCHQ cybersecurity team - a close-knit group of misfits whose subdued, biscuit-eating existence is disrupted by the arrival of American NSA agent Jerry (David Schwimmer). In this opening double bill, the culture clash begins as Jerry tries to enlist the group in a spot of team building before Mohammed accidentally deletes all the personnel files, forcing everyone to redo their aptitude tests - with worrying results.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 21st February 2020Intelligence review
The wait for TV to use Nick Mohammed to his full comic potential is finally over, thanks to Sky One's new sitcom, Intelligence. And all it took was him to write it himself and get David Schwimmer to agree to co-star.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st February 2020Intelligence review - David Schwimmer is so squandered
The former Friends star and comic Nick Mohammed fight cyber-terrorism in Sky's comedy ... but their one-dimensional script and boilerplate plot are totally criminal.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 21st February 2020Intelligence review, Sky One
David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed are the odd couple in this workplace comedy.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 21st February 2020Intelligence, review
Like all good workplace sitcoms, the devil is in the details - and the best moments here recalled The Office.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 21st February 2020