My Family Reviews

'My Family' is now into its fourth series and apparently a fifth is also being planned. Few would have guessed it would become so popular when the first, shortest series was greeted with reasonable ratings but not huge enthusiasm. I've watched most episodes of this comedy since it started and thought I'd share why I think ...  Read the complete review

Life is hard, and frequently I get down in the dumps, and I need a lift. I like to sit down in front of the television and laugh at a comedy, something to make me switch off and forget my woes for a short time. When I think of decent comedy, something to really make me laugh, it is very rare that I think of a how made in Britain. I normally think ...  Read the complete review

It's been some time now since there has been a decent sitcom on the BBC which didn't emerge more than ten years ago and comedy in the 90s was pretty much a total void. However, I've finally started to find myself getting quite interested in a little grower called My Family, which has just recently started a new series at 8.30 on BBC1 ...  Read the complete review

My Family is a brilliant BBC sitcom. One that refrains from all the usual smut and bad language which is so common place. With this show, you just get an inoffensive well written half an hour of quality TV. The situations are great, the lines are funny. OK, One could argue that the characters are one dimensional, but they have to be. You ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoy a good comedy and rarely coem across one that holds my interest. I am mildly amused by some of these new modern comedeys but only a small number actually make me laugh and saty tuned and tune in the next time it is on. My family is the first comedy in a long long time to be succesfull. They have tried so many different ...  Read the complete review

Now, I reckon there are very few days that I don't laugh? I love laughing. Ignoring the fact that over the long term it will help to create wrinkles and lines across what was otherwise a smooth peach like complexion (I lie as well as laugh you know ;)) laughing is good for me. Laughing is good for you. Laughing is good for the soul. It ...  Read the complete review

My young daughter recently wrote a review of this programme, unbeknown to me, using my log in. It was relatively short and to the point, as the ‘somewhat useful’ ratings and terse comments told us. So, to make amends and put the record straight I decided to watch my daughter’s favourite programme and do my own review ...  Read the complete review

After the ratings success of "My Family" last September, a second series was commissioned by the BBC. Staring Robert Lindsay as Ben Harper, "My Family" is a UK sitcom written in an American style that's just come back onto our screens. You can catch the programme on BBC 1 at 20:30 on Friday or repeated on Sunday at 16:30, ...  Read the complete review

Beginning it's second season with a bang this week was BBC's sitcom offering 'My Family.' It's hilarious, makes you cringe, makes you cry. Exactly like your real family does. With time gone by, TV could pour out any old rubbish, and people would watch it - what other choice did they have? More cups of tea? But ...  Read the complete review

I saw the first episode and I was in stitches, we haven’t had a good new comedy in ages, and now here comes my family. It’s a comedy about a dentist and his family along with his very funny and strange assistant, played by Daisy Donovan [ex-presenter of the 11’O Clock Show”] It’s a snappy very funny ...  Read the complete review

My Family has a good pedigree. Written and created by Fred Barron who was involved with hit American shows ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘The Larry Sanders Show’. It also has Robert Lindsay, the immortal Wolfie Smith himself. Despite all this though it still doesn’t click for me even though it has a good amount of potential. The ...  Read the complete review

Personally I think this is one of the most funniest and innovative sitcoms the BBC has produced in years. I clicked with it instantly, and it had me laughing for a full half hour. It depicts family life in a humourous way, and I couldn't help but find a piece of my own family in there. The dad of the family, a failing dentist who is fed up ...  Read the complete review

I was a little dubious and weary when I heard about the new sitcom coming to BBC ONE - My Family. Let's face it, the idea has been stabbed at again and again in the past, and we've been let down badly (Heartbreak Hotel for example). But when watched the first episode of My Family, I certainly wasn't disappointed... Firstly, ...  Read the complete review

Its hard to believe that this is brand new sitcom! Anyone would be forgiven for thinking it was yet another rerun over an overworked, out-of-date seventies TV sitcom. But no, it's new, totally new. We don't need to worry about missing an episode because we will be able to watch repeats of it for the next thirty years. ...  Read the complete review

Yet another rubbish sitcom, when will they learn they can't just keep on using the same ideas that worked in the 70's and trying to incorporating them into the 00's, it doesn't work! The basic premise is the there is a family and they use all the same gags from every other comedy programme ever created, but mostly from 2.4 ...  Read the complete review

I, Cookie36, have removed this, my opinion. Therefore it can no longer be rated unless you actually want to rate these few words of explanation. I have decided to do this for personal reasons and am hoping that dooyoo will delete this account. I feel I can no longer be part of dooyoo as I feel there is too much wrong with ...  Read the complete review

Only two weeks into its first series, and already My Family is a hit. The dialogue is snappy and the situations truly funny. It has been a long while since any new show of quality has come out, and this one was long overdue. A suburban dentist routinely ignores his family and takes a severe 'hands off' approach to parenting. ...  Read the complete review

This is a very lame sitcom offering from the BBC. Set in a family - father, mother and three children - it boasts an impressive cast with Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker in the parental roles. Lindsay plays a disillusioned dentist who with wife, Wanamaker, go through the usual sitcom family cliches - daughter wants a tattoo, oldest son is a ...  Read the complete review

Why oh why is the BBC giving us this garbage ?? As the title suggests what we’ve got is a sitcom centred on a middle class family. With a cast that includes Robert Lindsay, Zoe Wanamaker and a reject from Eastenders you might expect some laughs along the way. However what you actually get is, jokes about the mother who can’t cook, ...  Read the complete review