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I AM Nicola: BAFTA Television Preview
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BFI and Radio Times Television Festival Presents Me + You Productions’ ‘Kirsty’
Radio Times: When is Channel 4 Film Kirsty Starring Samantha Morton on TV?
The emotionally-charged film is part of a female-led anthology series starring Humans’ Gemma Chan and Vicky McClure. Read article.
Digital Spy: Karl Pilkington’s Sick of It is returning to Sky One for a second series
‘Urban Myths: The Dali and The Cooper’ now available to watch in the US on Showtime
Royal Television Society: RTS Craft & Design Awards 2018 Winners Announced
Vanessa White wins Make Up and Hair Design for Me + You Productions’ ‘The Dali and The Cooper.’ Read article.
Royal Television Society: Nominations for RTS Craft & Design Awards 2018
Vanessa White nominated for her work on Urban Myths, ‘The Dali and The Cooper.’ Read article
The Sun: Ashya King’s desperate fight for life to be made into three-part TV show
The incredible story of Ashya King’s fight for life is set to be told for the first time in a gripping three-part drama. Read article
Worldscreen: Me + You Productions to Explore the Story of Ashya King
Broadcast: Me + You to tell Ashya King story
Deadline: Saving Ashya
‘Long Walk To Freedom’ Director Justin Chadwick Teams With Me+You To Tell Story Of Young Cancer Survivor. Read article
Rapid TV News: Me+You secures rights to Ashya King story
C21 Media: Me + You explores Saving Ashya
UK-based Me+You Productions is developing a three-part fact-based drama about the story of Ashya King. Read article
Radio Times: Vicky McClure, Gemma Chan and Samantha Morton to star in trio of “emotionally raw” TV films
Dominic Savage’s trilogy of films will air on Channel 4 in 2019. Read article.
Deadline: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Gemma Chan To Star In Dominic Savage-Penned Anthology Series For UK’s Channel 4
Chan will appear in the three-part series, as will Minority Report’s Samantha Morton and This Is England and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure. Read article.
Channel 4: C4 Commissions Drama Anthology Series by Dominic Savage
From writer-director Dominic Savage and starring a trio of Britain’s leading female actors. Read article.
Deadline: WME to Represent Me + You Productions
‘Sick of It’ Producer Eyes Scripted U.S Push. Read article.
The Sunday Times: ‘Sharp comic riffs’…’Echoes of Larry David’….’Existential version of Sorry’
The Independent: Pilkington and collaborator Richard Yee are to be congratulated on such an original piece of work
The Times: A Life in the Day: the writer and actor Karl Pilkington on Ricky Gervais, “getting a sweat on” and his brush with rumpology
Pilkington has written and stars in a new sitcom, Sick of It. Read article.
i News: Karl Pilkington on Sick of It: ‘There’s not much acting going on.”
He wanted to quit but Ricky Gervais’s side-kick has now written his own sitcom, Sick of It, about loneliness and depression. Read article.
Digital Spy: Sick of It is the most satisfying and genuinely profound show, of any genre, this year
The round-headed buffoon is, in fact, profound. Read article.
The Guardian: Melancholic meditation…Sick of It proves him more savant that idiot and perhaps that is the Pilkington we need today
The Telegraph: The unflinchingly honest conversations between Inner and Outer Karl’s emotions bring moments of poignancy
Drama Quarterly: ‘Melancholic, sweet and emotional’
Karl Pilkington and director Richard Yee, Pilkington’s fellow co-writer and co-creator, reveal all to DQ. Read article.
The Culture Trip: Reluctant Londoner, Traveller and Actor Karl Pilkington Is Sick of It
Karl Pilkington is trying something completely different with Sick of It. Read article.
I Talk Telly: The quality of writing in Sick of It is to be admired and range of emotions felt as a viewer is rare for comedy
Pilkington’s never starred in his own scripted comedy, until now…
Broadcast: Sick of It, Sky 1
In his first scripted role, Karl Pilkington proved his acting chops by playing the main character and his alter ego, says Richard Yee
Radio Times: First look at Karl Pilkington in new Sky comedy Sick of It
The Moaning of Life and Idiot Abroad star is appearing alongside himself in the brand new sitcom Read article
Digital Spy: Karl Pilkington reveals why he came out of retirement – and why he’s ditched travel shows for a sitcom
He’s back… and he’s Sick of It.
Read Interview
The List: Pilkington captures a real sense of sadness and exasperation and grows as an actor and character with each episode
Pilkington wrestles with his inner voice
Ready Steady Cut: The secret weapon of Sick of It is an incredibly earnest centre; a melancholic emotional heart that tinges the laughs with a kind of sadness, or at least a sobering reality
Chortle: ‘Maybe if I was checked out, someone would say I was mental.’
Karl Pilkington on his new Sky comedy Sick of It. Read interview here.
Evening Standard: Karl Pilkington: Anyone who meets me is like, ‘you’re not an idiot’
Karl Pilkington is not an idiot. Read Interview
Guardian: Noel Fielding: ‘Everything Salvador Dalí did was funny’
The comedian stars as one of his heroes, goth-rocker Alice Cooper, in Sky’s latest Urban Myths romp Read Interview