Watson & Oliver

Watson & Oliver

2012

Seasons & Episodes

2
1
EP6  Episode 6
May. 30,2013
Episode 6

Three ways to escape a boring conversation; an actress learns how to cry on cue; an author discovers her new erotic novel is too embarrassing to read out loud; and somewhere in Spain a matador and a bull are falling in love.

EP5  Episode 5
May. 23,2013
Episode 5

This episode features some very flirty Europeans, the psychology of biscuit eating and a hen night that goes horribly horribly wrong. Plus it looks as if prisoner Pat and warder Jean may be about to part forever.

EP4  Episode 4
May. 16,2013
Episode 4

This episode features the agony of a teenage date; the mysterious power of an unfashionable brown dress; and a great new way to stay fit and lose weight - terror. Plus a poodle and a basset hound discuss the finer points of dog shows.

EP3  Episode 3
May. 09,2013
Episode 3

Prime Minister Frances invents a war, Susan has a bit of a problem with a wasp, Bea and Fi have a bit of a problem with a Take That calendar and a rodent control operative shows her more sensitive side. A warrior from the future has a warning about tea, and the Kooky Girls, the girls that can sell you anything and like to ride bikes with baskets.

EP2  Episode 2
May. 02,2013
Episode 2

This week's sketches include a meeting with a forgetful spy; a supermarket shopping trip with a Brazilian carnival dancer; and details on how to get hold of a proper cup of tea.

EP1  Episode 1
Apr. 25,2013
Episode 1

A realistic cookery programme shows how to bin your burnt dinner and order a take-away; two policewomen get a bit too musical; a prime minister comes up with the ultimate excuse to duck out of a boring dinner; a homeless girl invites her date back to her bench; a disco at the prison; and there's wall-to-wall cakes and cockney mums in a loving re-creation of Call the Midwife.

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Released: 2012-02-20 | Released Producted By: BBC , Popper Pictures Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xt9ct
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Cast

Lorna Watson , Ingrid Oliver

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Reviews

Rockingham Some of the reviewers were savage about Watson & Oliver. 'Oxbridge', 'canned laughter', 'derivative'. You can attach those labels to about 80% of BBC 2 comedy over the years. But the acting was great and Lorna and Ingrid had a nice chemistry. Not many double acts cut their teeth by filling that mid evening mainstream sketch show slot. The big problem you have is 'watershed' weakness. Most new comedy acts go late on Channel 4 or 5 and pack the sketches with rude, sweary-Mary arse jokes which pull in the student/pub/fringe set. The other extreme is trying to be cerebral and building an audience on BBC R4. This in some ways did neither.Miranda got around this problem with a sit com and I think this might be where Watson & Oliver could succeed in the future. Loved the fighting women, the Police car sketches, Mad Men and the 30s eyebrow sketch. Other sketches (French resistance) ran on far too long and yes, the canned laughter was a mistake. So rather than Watson & Oliver I think some editorial issues at fault. Not many new double acts would impress doing this mainstream stuff. Audiences are primed now for either sassy Ianucci style satire or wise-alec panel shows hosted by Brydon/O'Briain. They need a better platform. Maybe a later edgier slot.
chazwyman As a female duo, Watson and Oliver will naturally invite comparisons with French and Saunders. It's unfair to compare it to such a prolific sketch show and W&O has many, many funny moments. It strikes me as a little odd when a sketch show this new, made by relative newcomers, is slated for not being comparable to the greatest British female comedy double act of all time. It's true that some of their ideas are supposedly "recycled", however, this is the case with most comedians and sketch shows and very often the old ideas are the best. As well as that, if you don't find any of their facial expressions amusing on some level, then you can be considered officially without a soul.
emaccrossan Sketch comedy as performed by W.& O. (or any female duo) will inevitably invite comparison with French and Saunders who set a particularly high bar for both sexes in the eighties. I am not starved for an understanding of UK comedy as I grew up on DNAYS, Python, M&W, Ronnies, Perrin, Fawlty et al, through Comic Strip, Young Ones, F&S, Blackadder to Spaced, Ted, Office and Black Books. In the US, sketch comedy is pretty much relegated to SNL, Kids TV or Animation so both seasons of W.& O. were really refreshing.My entire family and I have really enjoyed this show having just caught the first season by chance and watched in its entirety one evening. Steeped in the traditions of the seventies, it lifted our spirits and genuinely made us laugh. Some gags occasionally missed their mark but everything was solid and well written and carried by a sense of conviction from both comedians and cast. The second season we watched weekly and it retained the high-standard of tightly written sketches and seemed more polished. Should they not get renewed for a third season I believe we will see more of them as they have considerable acting abilities.Give it a go!
benjamin-twist I just started watching this on BBC2 and I can't watch any more. I really can't. It's so pathetic and annoyingly unfunny. Watson and Oliver are the BBC's latest comedy 'find' and I wish they'd left them where they found them. This is so derivative it's embarrassing. It's like they watched the last series of French and Saunders (the totally shameless, doing-it-for-the-money, unfunny one where Dawn and Jennifer were both past it) and decided to copy it lock, stock and barrel. Throw in a bit of Catherine Tate, some Julie Walters (Ms Walters please sue) and copious amounts of truly irritating canned laughter and - hey presto - a crap series by two Z grade comedians.What's on? Watson and Oliver. My advice is to switch off.