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Sitcoms are a tough sell these days. There’s just so much to live up to so we keep banging on about Fawlty Towers and Blackadder.
If only we had something else to talk about.
The Cockfields on Gold is co-written and stars Joe Wilkinson, who I knew only as that bloke who performs idiotic sketches on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
What a surprise then that he has penned with David Earl this gentle family comedy that gave me all the feels of that other classic: The Royle Family.
It follows a family, no more normal or weird than anyone’s, who mostly sit around on a sofa irritating the hell out of each
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Do they need spare duvets, more pie? Should they eat lunch in the garden? What about midges? Napkins? Donna’s facial expressions grow more and more twitchy.
Sue’s husband Ray, played by Ball, just wants to eat his sandwich – white slice, plastic cheese, while watching TV.
Simon’s awkward stepbrother David, played by Ben Rufus Green, is obsessed with having selfies with celebrities.
One “tense” scene saw the family sitting outside the closed gate of what they
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as he wanted salt to keep the slugs away
in slept under a bridge, and a girl shivering a doorway after attempting suicide. No one, particularly children, should ever be without a home.
The transformation of a rundown church hall into accommodation for charity Nightsafe was incredible.
A life-affirming hour of telly.
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