Staged
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / BritBox
- 2020 - 2022
- 20 episodes (3 series)
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as stage actors furloughed by covid-19. Also features Simon Evans, Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg and Lucy Eaton.
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Staged and Gone Fishing win Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Staged and Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing have won prizes in the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2021. Additionally, Elis James and John Robins were the winners in the podcast category.
British Comedy Guide, 12th March 2021Comedies nominated in Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Friday Night Dinner, Inside No. 9, Staged, This Country and The Trip are up for Best Comedy in the 2021 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 18th February 2021Staged script book set to be published
A book featuring the scripts of Staged, the comedy series starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, is set to be published.
British Comedy Guide, 18th February 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
After Life, Staged, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster and Inside No. 9 have won prizes in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Radio 4 comedies Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Dead Ringers, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Joe Lycett's Obsessions have also won.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2021Staged Series 2 review
Upstaged by 'the monologue woman' - Phoebe Waller-Bridge steals the show.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 25th January 2021Staged review
It's going in circles... down the plughole.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 20th January 2021Staged review
I don't know exactly when this second series of Staged was filmed, but you have to wonder how they could have known they would be nailing the nadir of frustration so many of us are feeling this exact week.
James Jackson, The Times, 20th January 2021Staged: Zoom miniseries plays perfectly with the format
David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabble as exaggerated versions of themselves, capturing the chaos of life in lockdown.
Joel Golby, BBC, 16th January 2021Watch Mark Kermode find 1950s attitudes in 1950s films
The new series of Mark Kermode's Secrets Of Cinema began with an episode on British comedy films. As ever, Kermode was terrific at demonstrating how persistent certain characters and ideas in his chosen genre have proved to be.
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One of the bright spots of the first lockdown was Staged, in which David Tennant and Michael Sheen played themselves communicating on Zoom.
James Walton, The Spectator, 16th January 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2021