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From the creative team behind the BAFTA award- winning Murder in Successville, King Gary is written by Tom Davis and James De Frond. It stars Davis as the lead (Gary) and the series is directed by De Frond.
Our story follows childhood sweethearts Gary and Terri (Laura Checkley) and their aspirations to achieve social acceptance and moderate material success in competitive suburbia. This, accompanied by drama queen Gary’s constant strive to impress his prehistoric old school Dad, Big Gary (Simon Day) and attempt to fill his big boots, equals a massive ‘try hard’ douchebag.
A study of how the small things in life can be blown up to absurd proportions as the pressures of the modern world, and how we think we must exist within it, can spiral out of control. A big comedy about life s small and often petty dramas.
Detectorists follows the fortunes of two friends, Lance (Toby Jones) and Andy (Crook), and their fellow members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC). Andy lives with his partner Becky (Rachael Stirling), working cleaning jobs and studying for an archaeology degree, while Lance pines after his ex-wife Maggie (Lucy Benjamin), who left him for the manager of a Pizza Hut. We are introduced to their world by inductee club member Sophie (Aimee-Ffion Edwards), who joins Lance and Andy detecting on a local farm where they believe a Saxon hoard may be buried.
The search is jeopardised, however, when the DMDC’s loveably pompous club president, Terry (Gerard Horan), decides to investigate the mystery of the farmer’s missing wife; and events are further complicated by the continued presence of a rival metal-detecting pair who want the turf for themselves.
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Dick Whittington, National Theatre at Home review - colourful and amiable entertainment
Free stream of the NT s Covid-affected pantomime
by Veronica LeeMonday, 11 January 2021
Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings as Dick WhittingtonThe Other Richard
In a much-depleted and truncated pantomime season that withered on the vine, the National Theatre s debut production of
Dick Whittington lasted only four performances before the show was cancelled; it has now released this recording, which will be available throughout the current lockdown.
The National Theatre: Dick Whittington | Review
December 24, 2020 Last updated:
December 24, 2020
Put it this way – the National Theatre hasn’t done pantomime for a long time, and it shows. They did well to avoid celebrity casting, and while their efforts were honourable in their tribute to each and every other theatre in the country whose pantomimes have been postponed for a year (or even cancelled altogether for certain venues that have permanently closed their doors), it was like watching the England football team in the knock-out stages of the World Cup: they gave it their all, for sure, but it just didn’t turn out as well as it could have done.
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Ghosts, Motherland, QI and King Gary
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 harsh given this has not exactly been the easiest of years to film stuff.
However, tonight there’s a great run of festive comedy programming, none of which the Corporation, in its wisdom, included in its previews list of weekly highlights circulated to journalists. No wonder it got a pasting in the press when thus line-up was left out!
Ease yourself into the night with Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (6.30pm, BBC Two), which is always as welcoming as a warm bath - even if the water the pair often end up waist-deep in is a little chillier.