The Kemps
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 2020 - 2023
- 2 episodes
Two music documentary spoofs following former Spandau Ballet superstars, siblings Martin and Gary Kemp. Also features Martin Kemp, Rhys Thomas, Perry Benson, Shirlie Kemp and Michael Kitchen
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The Kemps: All True review
The show packed in so many offbeat scenes that will lodge in the brain, that The Kemps: All True is surely the stuff of cult longevity. It's comedy Gold.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 6th July 2020TV review - The Kemps: All True
This really was delightfully ridiculous and gloriously funny material, both of the Kemps were on fantastic form and Thomas assembled a superb supporting cast too, all of whom made this exceptional material consistently hilarious.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 6th July 2020The Kemps: All True review
Gary and Martin Kemp gleefully send themselves up in this one-off mockumentary - though it's never as funny when celebrities are in on the joke.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 5th July 2020The Kemps: All True review
Spandau Ballet mockumentary may not be indestructible, but some of it is gold.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 5th July 2020The Kemps: All True, BBC2, review
A sharp script and bags of humility made for TV gold.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 5th July 2020The Kemps: All True, review
The Spandau Ballet bros strike spoof documentary gold.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 5th July 2020Tony Hadley hits out at Kemp mockumentary
Spandau Ballet's former frontman Tony Hadley has claimed he wasn't approached to appear in Gary and Martin Kemp's mockumentary The Kemps: All True - and he would have declined the offer.
Cydney Yeates, Metro, 5th July 2020TV preview: There She Goes, The Kemps
There She Goes, which centres around family life with a disabled child, would struggle to be half as brilliant had it not been written by two parents living in just such a situation.
Spinal Tap will forever be the gold standard of rock mockumentaries. That much is "True" (okay, I'll stop now), but The Kemps: All True shows there is life in the old format yet.
Alison Rowat, The Herald, 4th July 2020All True: Martin and Gary Kemp interview
The fame! The fans! The fallouts! It's 40 years since Martin and Gary Kemp were two of Britain's biggest pop stars with Spandau Ballet. Now a must-see mockumentary for the BBC is about to throw the brothers into the spotlight again. Polly Vernon meets them.
Polly Vernon, The Times, 28th March 2020Kemps in new Rhys Thomas music spoof for BBC Four
Spandau Ballet stars Martin and Gary Kemp will feature in a new BBC Four spoof music documentary, from writer and director Rhys Thomas.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2020