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Big Boys on Channel 4 review: The laughs and lows of a closeted teen’s coming of age

This heart-warming comedy explores grief and young men’s mental health struggles with wry humour

Evening Standard

Big Boys review – this warm, tender comedy will pierce your heart

The growing relationship between two young men, one gay one straight, makes for a genuinely uplifting, witty sitcom

The Guardian - UK

Big Boys review: Jack Rooke’s sprightly comedy will be your next coming-of-age obsession

Starring ‘Derry Girls’ actor Dylan Llewellyn, this semi-autobiographical sitcom is awash in cringe comedy and ITV Daytime references

The Independent UK

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Big Boys on Channel 4, cast, when it's on TV and what it's about

The new comedy has stars of Derry Girls, Ghosts and Doctor Who

Wales Online

Thursday briefing: Gray’s report confirms Boris Johnson’s agenda - his own survival

In today’s newsletter: When limiting the harm of the Partygate scandal is the government’s number one priority, what does that mean for how the country is run?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Jack Rooke’s Big Boys is really beautiful television

Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing star in the coming-of-age drama. Plus: Art That Made Us looks at post- second world war earthshakers. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Jack Rooke on his new Channel 4 comedy Big Boys: we never see straight/gay male friendships on screen

The writer of Channel 4’s new comedy on finding humour in tragedy and why we still have a long way to go when it comes to tackling mental health

Evening Standard

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Derry Girls' Wee English Fella in new Channel 4 university sitcom

Channel 4 has produced Big Boys, a semi-autobiographical sitcom by comedian Jack Rooke about an unlikely friendship

Belfast Live

Derry Girls star to take lead in new Channel 4 sitcom based on comedian's book

Channel 4 has produced Big Boys, a semi-autobiographical sitcom by comedian Jack Rooke about an unlikely friendship between two young men who meet at university

Glasgow Live

Derry Girl Dylan Llewellyn: ’I call things wee when they’re not even small’

As the final Derry Girls series airs, its ‘wee English fella’ recalls his transition from schooldays struggling with dyslexia to being an honorary Irishman

The Guardian - UK

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