Warren United
- TV sitcom
- ITV4
- 2014
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Animated sitcom about a football fanatic whose interest in the sport is starting to impinge on his family life. Stars Darren Boyd, Eleanor Lawrence, Morgana Robinson, Morwenna Banks, Nitin Ganatra and more.
Press clippings
Can football and sitcom ever mix?
No sooner had the extended Premier League season ended than another footballing story started. You might not have noticed, but Apple TV's culture-clash sitcom Ted Lasso, about an American NFL coach with no soccer experience taking over at a Premier League team, began over the weekend. It arrived to a pretty muted response. It's not the only footy sitcom we have seen this year. Inbetweeners writers Damon Beesley and Iain Morris's disappointing The First Team had some distinctly lower-midtable reviews for the BBC. It's something of a trend that, whenever the sit of the com is in a football club, the laughs are hard to find. Mike Bassett: Manager lasted a series, The Cup and Warren United have tried it too, but none of them quite worked.
Tom Nicholson, The Guardian, 26th August 2020Henry Normal mulls the lack of adult cartoons
It is the most popular genre of comedy - but one British broadcasters have been reluctant to embrace.
Henry Normal, Chortle, 13th May 2014Football-based comedies have come and gone unmourned over the years but, despite the distractingly Elton John-like appearance of hero Warren and a general "British Family Guy" air, the pedigree of the scriptwriters and actors - from Simon Nye to Morwenna Banks - ensures this one is eminently watchable. Tonight, manic Brainsford United obsessive Warren unwisely persuades his reluctant wife and child to paint their faces for a big cup tie. There's a big cheerleader initiative, too, but all comes to grief before half-time.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 29th April 2014Could Warren United be the UK's answer to The Simpsons?
The first episode of Warren United was promising enough but with only six in the series, it will have to work very hard over the next few weeks to make itself as familiar, and unmissable, for audiences as Bart and co.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 24th April 2014Warren United - TV review
If there were problems with Warren United, they were that the writing wasn't good enough and the animation crude.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 23rd April 2014Football has all the big comedy themes
When does a hobby stop being a hobby and become a sickness? Why are men more prone to mono-mania than women?
Simon Nye, The Telegraph, 22nd April 2014Radio Times review
With the World Cup lurking enticingly on the horizon, this animated sitcom about a hapless everyman football freak is pitched somewhere between Family Guy, Uncle and Soccer AM. Unfortunately, it's not as funny as any of them.
There's no shortage of talent involved: Spy's Darren Boyd stars as Warren; Johnny Vegas is the imaginatively monikered coach Fat Baz; and Morwenna Banks (or Peppa Pig's mum to the UK's entire toddler population) plays drippy son Harrison. But the stereotypical main protagonist lacks the satirical edge of a Homer Simpson or a Peter Griffin, and you might find yourself yearning to slap him out of his soccercentric stupor.
Gary Rose, Radio Times, 22nd April 2014Warren United review
Hopefully the series will up its game before the season is done.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 22nd April 2014Warren United is a celebration of being a football fan
And Bill Freedman, the 84-year-old Arsenal supporter and show business veteran behind ITV4's new animated series, has advice for Arsene Wenger regarding his injury woes
Terry Payne, Radio Times, 22nd April 2014TV Review: Warren United
Warren United is funny, brave and very engaging. An element of Family Guy mixed in with football - this cartoon is sure to be a hit.
Gunners in Arms, 16th April 2014