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The Kemps: All True. Image shows left to right: Gary (Gary Kemp), Martin (Martin Kemp)
The Kemps

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 2020

TV 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 2020

The 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 2020

The Kemps: All True review

Spandau Ballet mockumentary may not be indestructible, but some of it is gold.

Ed Cumming, The Independent, 5th July 2020

The Kemps: All True, BBC2, review

A sharp script and bags of humility made for TV gold.

Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 5th July 2020

The Kemps: All True, review

The Spandau Ballet bros strike spoof documentary gold.

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 5th July 2020

Tony 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 2020

TV 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 2020

All 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 2020

Kemps 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

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