Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (2004)
- TV comedy drama
- 2004
Remake of Jack Rosenthal's classic comedy about the making of a doomed TV drama. Film extra Joe McGill is thrilled when he is given a line to speak. Also features Tom Courtenay, Mike Hayley, Sandra Voe, Paul Butterworth, Tamsin Greig and more.
Press clippings
When ITV finally showed the play - quietly, belatedly and late at night - Jack Rosenthal was dead. If he's listening, I found it full of wonderful things, as Howard Carter said, peering into Tutankhamen's tomb and seeing bygone glory.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 27th December 2005