Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
05/09/2016 … Can watching other people play video games make entertaining TV? It’s a question that has no doubt vexed broadcast executives who’d envy the devoted audience…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 05 September 2016
© BBC/Big Talk Productions Ltd/Oli Upton We The Jury
05/09/2016 … It will come as little surprise that We The Jury, the latest pilot in the BBC's Landmark Sitcom season, is something unusual, given that it's been created by the…
Fri 02 September 2016
© BBC Young Hyacinth
02/09/2016 … None of the comedies being revisited for the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom really work without knowing the context in which the show is being revived – but Young Hyacinth…
© BBC Goodnight Sweetheart
02/09/2016 … There’s a great line in the revived Goodnight Sweetheart, when Nicholas Lyndhurst’s time-travelling bigamist Gary Sparrow is described as ‘a two-timing bastard…
Thu 01 September 2016
© BBC/Angus Young Our Ex Wife
01/09/2016 … For a while there was the concept that sitcom characters had to be sympathetic and relatable.
© BBC/Alan Peebles Til Death Us Do Part
01/09/2016 … Tightened budgets are cutting deep at the BBC.
Wed 31 August 2016
Amy Schumer
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Edinburgh Playhouse
31/08/2016 … Amy Schumer comes to the UK on a career high, but she doesn’t think her time in the spotlight will last much longer; not feeling or acting like a normal…
Tue 30 August 2016
© BBC Home From Home
30/08/2016 … The latest pilot in the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom series, Home From Home is a warm, gentle affair, much down to the likeability of Johnny Vegas as a hapless…