Miranda
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 2009 - 2015
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Hit sitcom starring Miranda Hart as a woman desperate to fit into society and find a man. She runs a joke shop with childhood friend Stevie. Stars Miranda Hart, Sarah Hadland, Patricia Hodge, Tom Ellis, Sally Phillips and more.
- Series 2, Episode 6 repeated at 3:15am on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 805
Press clippings Page 18
Is this the funniest woman in Britain?
She's as comedic as Tommy Cooper and as hilarious as Hattie Jacques. Now Miranda Hart has won the affections of Allison Pearson.
Allison Pearson, The Telegraph, 8th December 2010Miranda is a Wally
Bonjour la peeps, as Tilly (Sally Philipps's character) might say.
Miranda Hart, BBC Comedy, 6th December 2010Miranda: the sitcom you love or loathe
Is Miranda Hart's televison show just too unreconstructed for your taste, or are you one of 3.7 million viewers tuning in?
Sarah Phillips, The Guardian, 2nd December 2010Miranda Hart - TV's queen of uncool
Critics may have branded her sitcom amateurish and old-fashioned, but Miranda Hart has become a comedy hero.
Kira Cochrane, The Guardian, 2nd December 2010Miranda cracks the television screen
By addressing the camera directly, Miranda Hart joins a very distinctive televisual group.
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 2nd December 2010Miranda's sexi-pode
Week three already, well I never did. Now, my internet friends, this episode from the day I thought of the story has been called the 'sexi-pode'. Oh yes, my alter-ego actually gets some male attention this week.
Miranda Hart, BBC Comedy, 29th November 2010Miranda's Cringe of the Week: The Sneeze
The Miranda production team would love to hear your real-life cringeworthy moments...
BBC Comedy, 24th November 2010Review: Miranda
While the dated feel may not be to everyone's taste, snappy dialogue and a first-rate supporting cast ensure Miranda is several levels above what passes for comedy on the Beeb these days. Long live the Queen!
Arlene Kelly, Suite 101, 24th November 2010Miranda walks tall for BBC2
Sitcom attracts more viewers than BBC1's Panorama - and more than double the audience of Steve Coogan's The Trip.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 23rd November 2010Lady-mountain Miranda Hart continued tonight on her cheerfully disgraceful bumble through life, humiliating herself every step of the way as she tried to earn the respect and admiration of her friends and family.
Her sitcom is one in which a lone burp constitutes comedy worthy of a generous burst of canned laughter and the only discernible motif is the main character falling over.
Physical humour has become as unfashionable as Jim Davidson in the world of television comedy and much of Miranda's work comes across as camp and a bit daft.
There were, however, flashes of genuine wit in tonight's episode. On discovering that she had to go to a funeral without knowing who'd died, Miranda remarked that if she didn't know who was in the box, the funeral would 'be like Deal Or No Deal, but with people.'
As usual, the audience took on the part of Miranda's confidante, sympathising with her when her smugly married friends talked to her imitating the voice of their unborn baby and her mother disapproved of her inability to find a boyfriend.
Three or four more (equally ridiculous) storylines followed, one of which culminated in Miranda reading Mein Kampf to a group of small children in a library.
Miranda's fictionalised version of herself is a bit of an oddball and her humour is scatological-bordering-on-low-brow. But perhaps the reason for the sitcom's success is that it's so refreshing to see a woman on television who is a classic clown, without even a hint of grace or poise about her.
Miranda Hart is just one of those naturally funny people and for all this sitcom's silliness, her efforts are a joy to watch.