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Mongrels live chat
Fresh off the back of appearing on Scott Mills' Radio 1 Show this afternoon, Marion from Mongrels will be joining us for a live chat after the show at 11pm!
Jaine Sykes, BBC Comedy, 28th November 2011
Meet the Mongrels - Britain's most irreverent puppets
Mongrels is a show that fits somewhere between The Muppets and Family Guy and Sesame Street; That is, if everyone on Sesame Street were Oscar the Grouch, was British with an accent, and repeatedly taught you swear words you've never heard before. Oh yeah - and did I mention the stars of Mongrels are puppets?
Ben Collins, The Hulu Blog, 28th November 2011
Mongrels series 2 episode 4 review
I was completely and utterly wrong. This episode is certainly the best of Series 2 so far and, without doubt, lives up Series 1.
James T Cornish, Den Of Geek, 24th November 2011
Mongrels series 2 episodes 3 review
On the whole, it's a good episode, but the series seems to be struggling a little and isn't yet on a par with Series 1.
James T. Cornish, Den Of Geek, 17th November 2011
Mongrels was one of my favourite shows from last year. Mind you, I'm a sucker for just about anything anthropomorphic. The fact that this and Radio 4 comedy Warhorses of Letters is on at the same time's made me a rather happy man this past week...
This show, often viewed as an animal puppet version of Family Guy, is always enjoyable to a certain degree. It's full of jokes, most of which seem to work, both in the main dialogue and the cutaway scenes. The characters are entertaining, from metrosexual fox Nelson (Rufus Jones) to it-bitch Destiny (Lucy Montgomery), to the f***ing foul-mouthed fox Vince (Paul Kaye).
The second series started with a double bill - which to me felt wrong, primarily because the second episode was a "Horror special" which really should have gone out on Halloween. What on Earth the BBC Three schedulers were thinking of I have no idea.
Still, both episodes were entertaining, with their jokes and musical numbers, especially with a guest appearance from Richard O'Brien as a zombie dog singing a _Rocky Horror Show_-style love song. The one problem I have with Mongrels is that because it's on BBC Three, it has a very BBC Three idea of what a celebrity is. For example: Clive Anderson - great. Ainsley Harriott - could be worse. Jeff Brazier - never heard of him. Danny Dyer - oh f*** off (as Vince might say).
Still, this is good show on the whole. Certainly one of the better comedies on BBC Three, which probably means it'll be axed...
Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 14th November 2011
Mongrels - Definitely not the Muppets
Reminiscent of one of the all-time great movies, The Player, there are times that you'd like to be a fly on the wall in a pitch meeting trying to convince studio heads that your idea is the next Seinfeld, ER or Desperate Housewives. Imagine your pitch to the BBC commissioners for a series called Mongrels.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 14th November 2011