Motherland
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 2016 - 2022
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Comedy about middle-class parenthood and juggling kids, school, and other parents. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne and more.
- Series 1, Episode 2 repeated Thursday at 10pm on BBC2
Streaming rank this week: 148
Press clippings Page 10
Does Motherland need to pit women against each other?
The BBC2 sitcom expertly deconstructs traditional representations of motherhood, only to lazily cast its characters as school-run Mean Girls.
Fiona Sturges, i Newspaper, 5th October 2019Sharon Horgan: unstoppable rise as honest comedy master
As Motherland's second series begins, co-writers tell of the work ethic at heart of writer's success.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 4th October 2019Anna Maxwell Martin interview
'My kids hate watching me in Motherland!'.
What's On TV, 3rd October 2019BBC confirms third series for Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a further series of comedy Motherland. The ensemble sitcom's second series begins next week.
British Comedy Guide, 1st October 2019Shame on us for making Motherland so white
When BBC Two's comedy Motherland launched last year it was garlanded with praise for its warts-and-all portrayal of flustered parents thrust together at the school gates. But co-writer Sharon Horgan says she only belatedly realised they had made one serious oversight. 'We thought it was really fucking white,' she now admits, realising the narrow scope of the characters' ethnic mix. 'By the time we came to watch it, we thought, "shame on us".'
Chortle, 1st October 2019Sharon Horgan reveals she felt 'awkward' on school runs
Sharon Horgan has admitted she became "paranoid" that mums at her kids' school would think she was using them for comic material.
Aoife Finneran, The Irish Sun, 1st October 2019Anna Maxwell Martin - last seen giving Superintendent Hastings an almighty tongue-lashing in series five of Line of Duty - reprises her altogether different role in this wonderfully shambolic comedy: as a perpetually struggling middle-class mother shunned by the PTA and entirely unsupported by her husband. Happily, Diane Morgan also returns as the mellow, completely hands-off mum Liz, while Sherlock's Tanya Moodie joins the fold as Meg, who causes a stir at the school gates.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 31st August 2019RTS Craft & Design Awards 2018 winners
The winners of the the 2018 RTS Craft & Design Awards have been announced.
Royal Television Society, 27th November 2018Comedies nominated in British Screenwriters' Awards
The nominations for the British Screenwriters' Awards 2018 features the writers of Famalam, Timewasters, Derry Girls, Sick Note and Motherland.
British Comedy Guide, 18th July 2018BBC confirms Motherland Series 2
The BBC has now officially confirmed that Motherland is due to return for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018