James Walton

Not merely funny but somehow also joyous: Sky One’s Brassic reviewed

Plus: the central argument of BBC Four's Stories of Australian Cinema was that Australia was 'a nation of storytellers' (ie, a nation)

John Thomson's scene-stealing turn as a down-on-his-luck clown called Mr Popov – or Colin to his friends. Image: Sky UK ltd 
issue 09 May 2020

Danny Brocklehurst, the scriptwriter for Sky One’s Brassic, used to work for Shameless in its glory days — although if you didn’t know that already you could probably guess. For a start, the central characters are another close-knit group of ducking-and-diving working-class northerners not overburdened with a social conscience. But there’s also the fact that, no matter what they get up to, they’re clearly supposed to be lovable — coupled with the rather more mysterious fact that they are.

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