Vodka Diaries
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2014
- 1 pilot
Sitcom pilot about four girls who share a flat and get up to no good. Stars Aisling Bea, Rosamund Hanson, Cariad Lloyd, Gwyneth Keyworth, Luke McQueen and more.
Press clippings
There was one involving vibrators that started quite well: just a nice bit of visual comedy business in which one girl went to the communal TV remote to nick the batteries for her sex toy, only to discover to her disgust that they'd already been pinched for the same purpose by another female flatmate.
But then, unfortunately, it continued in that vein and I realised that smut was all it had to offer: endless filth by gobby girls banging on in different accents about vaginas. Presumably the writer thought she was being edgy or refreshingly frank or confrontational or daring, but actually it was just crass. This can be a problem, I think, with female comedy. When it's not about neurotic self-hatred it's about trying to outgross the boys with results that repel rather than amuse.
James Delingpole, The Spectator, 26th July 2014Rachel Hirons: Britain's answer to Lena Dunham?
The words 'too much information' are lost on Rachel Hirons, the brilliantly funny writer of The Vodka Diaries, a new BBC sitcom that's not for the faint hearted.
Lydia Slater, The Telegraph, 19th July 2014