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 15
Preview - Motherland
The first series of Motherland begins Tuesday 7th November on BBC Two. Here are Sophie's thoughts on the opening episode...
Sophie Davies, The Velvet Onion, 4th November 2017Last year's pilot clearly wasn't a fluke: this sitcom, created by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan, is an uproarious treat. Anna Maxwell Martin is Julia, a middle-class mother floundering through a suburban hell of caterpillar cakes, oversized kids' parties and judgmental supermums. Diane "Philomena Cunk" Morgan offers support.
The Guardian, 3rd November 2017Interview: Sharon Horgan
Motherland writer dreads the school run after basing characters on real mums.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 2nd November 2017Anna Maxwell-Martin interview
Anna Maxwell-Martin on showing off her comedy credentials by playing a harassed school run mum.
TV Times, 31st October 2017Anna Maxwell Martin on playing TV's most frazzled mum
The queen of period drama is casting off her bonnet and venturing into sitcom with Motherland. She talks about brutal parenting, competing with Cate Blanchett - and misbehaving on set.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 30th October 2017Diane Morgan: 'I want to play weirdos'
From Philomena Cunk to her anti-heroine in new comedy Motherland, the Bolton actor never plays it straight. Here, she talks children (spongers), sex scenes (ugh) and failure (works out in the end).
The Guardian, 28th October 2017Comedies nominated in Royal Television Society Awards 2017
Catastrophe, People Just Do Nothing and The Windsors are amongst the nominees for the Royal Television Society Awards 2017.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2017Fleabag, Alan Partridge and more up for BPG and TRIC awards
TV comedies including Fleabag, Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters and Mum have been nominated for more awards, as the Broadcasting Press Guild and Television And Radio Industries Club announce their shortlists.
British Comedy Guide, 20th February 2017Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 have been revealed. 60 shows are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title. Voting is now open.
British Comedy Guide, 16th January 2017The highlight of the BBC's 2016 sitcom season was the pilot for this comedy drama written by Graham Linehan, Holly Walsh and Sharon Horgan - a hysterically bleak portrait of modern parenthood that zipped by on a tidal wave of invention. Of course there's going to be a full series. Of course it's going to be brilliant.
Kate Abbott and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 7th January 2017