

Hold the Front Page
2023
0h 00m
17
In this fun, factual series comedians Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar immerse themselves into the world of local newspapers by travelling across the UK working for a different local paper eac...
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I badly wanted to enjoy this, but, unfortunately it just doesn't work, and for the most part, it was excruciating viewing. I am a big fan of Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe has his moments, but come on, the pair spent their entire time being too clever, too smug, what happened here guys, you're way better than this.
I'm not sure it felt natural, it was all to stagey, too artificial, I was hoping for the pair doing something a little different organic and natural, everything seemed stage managed, another Sky show just happened to be in the area, really! Were they trying to make a spoof show, a sort of sitcom? I'd love to know what Armando Iannucci could have done if he'd had some involvement here. Maybe someone like Tom Allen could have made it interesting? Perhaps not, the format itself is the major flaw.
It was at least interesting to learn how a relatively small newspaper works, we're all familiar with the big companies, a little more time spent on how the smaller tabloids operate would have been good.
The content at Sky has been decent lately, I've enjoyed some of their original stuff, but this, ouch. I got through three episodes, that was enough.
4/10.
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Country of origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Country Released: United kingdom
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Color: color