Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
This week, my Box-Eyed column at Newslite.tv takes a quick look at BBC2's silly-yet-endearing old-school sitcom Miranda , based on comedian Miranda Hart's Radio 4 comedy series Miranda Hart's Joke Shop. "Miranda Hart plays a comic version of herself; a posh-accented owner of a small joke shop who delegates the everyday running to her friend Stevie...
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's an old-fashioned sitcom starring a desperate 30-something woman. But I can't stop laughing at Miranda Miranda Hart's BBC2 sitcom has all the elements that would normally make me squirm: the desperate singleton with a massive crush on her mate from two doors down; the vast amount of gurning to camera; the mother who wants to marry her off; the staying in, drinking wine and...
The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miranda BBC2, Monday 8.30pm Miranda Hart’s sitcom is ridiculously silly, and that’s just part of the reason why I like it so much. Tonight, the joke shop owner decides that, as a single woman, she is carefree enough to jet off on holiday at a...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I'm not alone when I say I'm thoroughly enjoying Miranda on BBC2. If you're not aware of it, it's a thoroughly old-fashioned sitcom (in the nicest sense), which stars Miranda Hart as an under-achieving doofus with a push mother and ghastly friends who think she should be more like them. What's new and refreshing about it is that it doesn't have the remotest bit of grit, meanness...
