The Big One
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 1992
- 7 episodes (1 series)
American romantic writer James Howard, who has a rose-tinted view of the UK, comes to Britain for the first time to research his latest novel. Stars Mike McShane and Sandi Toksvig.
Press clippings
Bye-bye to The Big One (Channel 4), the McShane and Toksvig comedy which definitely grew on you. There are not many romantic comedies - offhand I can't think of any - which end with a fat American dressed as a chicken, a shop window dummy who seems, on the face of it, British and a Danish dwarf sitting companionably together on a sofa. And the words "So now what?"
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 17th April 1992