Unmissable show?
The Good Wife. It’s the best show ever made in the history of telly. I even dream about it, I’m that obsessed. I’m sad that it’s ending but they’re going to get out at their absolute peak. Also Broad City. In terms of female comedy it’s just winning at life.
Earliest TV memory?
A cartoon called A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. I think it explains the roots of my cynicism. I had a happy childhood, so I always wonder why I think the world is such a terrible place, and then I remember that the frog in it gets eaten by a duck. He has friends – a mouse and a rat – and they all die at the end, too. It’s carnage.
Bring back…
Friends. It was just the best sitcom ever made. I’d come home from school and watch it on E4. From five till six there’d be two episodes, then they’d repeat them on E4+1. Then there would be this void in my life from seven until eight where there was no Friends on telly. And then eight till nine I watched the same two episodes again, and then on repeat, again! So I’d watch two episodes four times over. I felt I was doing this crash course in how to construct an amazing sitcom. That’s how I justify it now, anyway.
TV turn off?
Made In Chelsea. It legitimises everything that’s wrong with western capitalist culture. Jeremy Kyle as well, in the opposite way. It demonises the working classes. You’ve got these rich, vacuous people being idolised on Made In Chelsea and the working classes being ridiculed on Jeremy Kyle.
Pitch us a TV show…
I write as well as act, so this would be giving away my best ideas! But I do think we need more shows that people watch and go: “Oh my God, that’s me.” I remember watching Hustle, which was filmed in Birmingham and set in London, and I remember being excited when I recognised a street they’d filmed on. You’re feeling like you’re being represented in some kind of way. It’s how people in London must feel all the time!
Raised By Wolves airs Wednesday, 10pm, Channel 4
