Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
© BBC/Bethany Hobbs 11/01/2021 … It will come as little surprise to anyone who’s encountered Mark Kermode’s film criticism on the radio or in print that his TV essay on British comedy…
Review of a new documentary about the death of Robin Williams
05/01/2021 … The shocking suicide of Robin Williams in August 2014, aged just 63, fulfilled a tears-of-a-clown narrative that’s hardwired into the collective psyche.
© BBC 30/12/2020 … As what’s hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime disruptor, the coronavirus pandemic is an unusual hook for a sitcom’s pilot episode.
© ITV 29/12/2020 … Advance press coverage of ITV’s Billy Connolly retrospective portrayed it as an emotional milestone marking the end of his career, cut short by the cruelties…
© Netflix Review of Charlie Brooker's end-of-year round-up for Netflix
27/12/2020 … It fast became a cliché to say that the spiralling dystopia of 2020 was like an out-of-control episode of Black Mirror.
© BBC/Merman Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Ghosts, Motherland, QI and King Gary
23/12/2020 … The BBC has been slammed for a Christmas schedule that’s heavy on animated films, reruns and Mrs Brown’s Boys – criticism which seems a bit…
© Netflix 22/12/2020 … London Hughes is just a teensy bit less coy than the semi-censored title of her show suggests.
Netflix special reviewed by Steve Bennett
21/12/2020 … Rhys Nicholson’s first Netflix special starts with melancholic monochrome shots of the deserted streets of Melbourne, the camera swooping into the Atheneum…
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