The Goes Wrong Show
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2019 - 2021
- 12 episodes (2 series)
BBC One comedy series starring the original founding Mischief Theatre members. Stars Henry Shields, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell and more.
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Review - Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity
Everything was exploding or bursting into flames in the deliriously funny Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity (BBC1). The piano burned, a stage hand was crushed by scenery, King Herod's clothes flew off and a fight broke out between two ends of a pantomime donkey.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 23rd December 2020Review - The Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity
Pure fun to lighten a grim Christmas.
Tim Bano, The Stage, 23rd December 2020The Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity, BBC1, review
Cornley Dramatic Society's second Christmas special proved Mischief Theatre's chaos still has legs.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 22nd December 2020The secret to The Goes Wrong Show's success
The Mischief Theatre Company has a flourishing stage and TV franchise, with a second Christmas special on the way. The trio discuss how difficult it is making mistakes go right.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 21st December 2020The Goes Wrong Show gets second series
The Goes Wrong Show, from the writers of the hit Goes Wrong series of stage comedies, will return to BBC One for another series.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2020The Goes Wrong Show: how not to laugh when working
Give your adrenal glands the month off and enjoy some good old-fashioned slapstick instead. The Goes Wrong Show is proper art, promises Lucy Sweet.
Lucy Sweet, The Big Issue, 31st January 2020There is a touch of the Mrs Brown's Boys about this comedy, and the guffawing studio audience seem to be lapping it up. Tonight, the hapless actors are putting on a period romance that ventures across the class divide. The effects soon go wrong, though, as the set threatens to flood and a ceiling fan gets too close for comfort.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 24th January 2020Silly and family-friendly, this comedy spin-off from a successful West End play - where the props, cues and sets constantly let the actors down - is primed to embed itself as a festive tradition. Tonight: second world war code-breaking and a lot of strong work with recalcitrant roller blinds.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 3rd January 2020Thank goodness for the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society and The Goes Wrong Show (BBC1) for their genuinely original take on festive comedy.
In 2016, they staged their catastrophic pantomime Peter Pan, in which several of the cast were maimed and others were not so lucky.
The following year they upped the stakes, roping in venerable luvvies Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg for a Christmas Carol that ended in arson, shootings and carnage.
Now they return for a series of six half-hours, and wisely avoid the temptation to stage even bigger calamities.
Let's face it, unless you have got an ocean liner and an iceberg handy, there is a limit to how spectacular disasters can be.
Instead, they increased the pace of the comedy, hurling jokes by the sackful at the live audience. Some delivered explosive laughs, other went with a more modest 'pop', but there was fun for any age.
From the moment the first Christmas stocking fell into a fireplace and a stagehand rushed on with an extinguisher, the pace did not let up.
My favourite was the drunken Santa, railing against Amazon for stealing his business: 'They have drones now . . . tiny dystopian sleighs.' Ho ho ho indeed.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 24th December 2019Reviews - Hugh Grant: A Life on Screen; Goes Wrong Show
Coverage of Hugh Grant: A Life on Screen (****) and The Goes Wrong Show (***).
Carol Midgley, The Times, 24th December 2019