Office Gossip

This new comedy programme has started its first series on BBC1 on Fridays but I cannot think it will make a second series based on the first showings. The programme has been written by Paul Mayhew-Archer who I can only suggest has got compromising photographs of a television executive to have got this programme made. Pauline Quirke plays the central character Joanne who is the PA to Rod (Robert Daws). It is set in a typical sitcom land office where nothing ever gets done and is populated by two-dimensional stereotypes. In Office Gossip this means a tell-all gossiper Cheryl, the hugely ambitious power-mad Maxine and her boyfriend Simon. The plots have ...  Read the complete review

UPDATE ** March 15th** I received a letter from Neil Stuke today. I sent him this review and he pointed out that he had only a scene in At Home With The Braithwaites, whereas he had leading roles in The Sins and Grafters. Therefore, I am amending this opinion accordingly. ********************************************* It takes a lot for me to laugh out loud at something on television, and if I do, it's usually a sitcom from the 1970s or a Carry On film. So the other Friday evening was quite momentous. The first programme of the new British sitcom, Office Gossip, had me in stitches, it was hilarious. So I decided to write an opinion on it, to hopefully ...  Read the complete review

Funny - well known actors - couldn't stop laughing I have watched the series so far and i must say i think it's quite good for a british comedy. I don't usually like british TV i am more of an american comedy fan. I think this show is really funny , the main charecter i would say is Jo (pauline quirke - birds of a feather) who is a middle aged single mother of sam (Charlotte Francis - my parents are aliens) working for a toy company . Then there is Rod - who's marriage is on the rocks (robert daws). Jo and Rod keep on being the centre of the "office gossip" about there suposed affair whereas it's just they have been ...  Read the complete review

If every Brit sit-com that wasn't a runaway success in its first series was immediately killed off after a first run we wouldn't have prolonged the life of Dads Army and Only Foools and Horses. Where as these went on to be classic comedies (ie much loved and much repeated) it seems that Office Gossip is unlikely to limp its way to a second series. The cast is strong in terms of experience with stars from earlier BBC comedies Birds of a Feather, Game On and The Brittas Empire combining in Office Gossip. The comedy is not strong and falls into farce or predictable cliche to often to continue generating laughs. The setting is the office ...  Read the complete review