22 Dec ‘10

“Take the ditz of Bridget Jones’s Diary, the country twee of Darling Buds of May and the broad brush strokes of Last of the Summer Wine and what do you get? A sum of less than those parts and more slapstick than you could fill Compo’s bath with.”
Alex Hardy, The Times

“Even the best comic actor needs decent set-ups and lines to keep a comedy drama together, and Accidental Farmer plodded through a series of sub-Cold Comfort Farm/Darling Buds of May cliches slower than a Gloucester Old Spot through mud.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Regardless of the opening, the rest of this comedy pilot trundled over ancient tracks.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“Old rockers do nostalgia better than most, not only because they seem so tangibly to personify social history, but because the contrast between their aged wistfulness and the intemperance of their youth is so pronounced.”
Amol Rajan, The Independent

“If you’ve been watching The Trip recently, in which two different blokes go on a gastronomic tour of the country, the pleasant inoffensiveness of this show is a pale comparison.”
Amol Rajan, The Independent

“It has… the potential to be a light but interesting and informative programme but no one will let it mature or go to the trouble of distilling it into anything more potable.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“As a series it reminds me of the cocktails we used to take to parties before we were legally allowed to drink.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“It couldn’t fail to point out the similarities between the new queen-in-waiting and her fiancé’s late mother Princess Diana.”
Matt Baylis, The Express