Thompson
- TV sketch show
- BBC One
- 1988
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Series containing sketches, songs and dance, starring and written by Emma Thompson. Also features Imelda Staunton, Phyllida Law, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Moore.
Press clippings
Emma Thompson left comedy when called a 'man hater'
In 1988, she launched her own series called Thompson. And that was the end of her career in comedy, at least for a while. "Thompson was ripped apart by critics," she says. "They said it was 'man-hating.' You can't imagine how terrible they were, so destructive and deeply, inutterably misogynistic. I absolutely know that now but I didn't then. At the time, I couldn't get out of bed. I thought, 'All right, maybe I shouldn't be doing this.'"
Mary McNamara, LA Times, 7th June 2019There are three women whom I feel inclined to rise up and call blessed. Vanya Kewley for courage and compassion, Lucinda Lambton (40 Minutes, BBC2) for joie de vivre and rollicking pottiness, and Emma Thompson for her new series, Thompson (BBC1), which she wrote. The sketches are not only neurotically funny in an Eleanor Bron-ish way but quite beautifully acted.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 11th November 1988