BAFTA Television 2022: The Winners". 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023. The audition for Am I Being Unreasonable?, the dark comedy co-written by and starring Daisy May Cooper, came up during the filming of Dodger. Rush was encouraged to improvise with the rest of the cast, and turned out to be brilliant at it. “I think improv is what made it look more natural and I think it made it funnier.”

The show has changed my life’ … Dustin Demri-Burns and Rush in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola PicturesTitle, first look and further casting announced for new comedy thriller Am I Being Unreasonable? starring Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022 . Retrieved 4 September 2022. The closest character to himself … Rush as Morgan, with David Threlfall in Dodger. Photograph: NBCUniversal International Studios/BBC BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations & Winners". 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023.

Am I Being Unreasonable Air Date Revealed". comedy.co.uk. September 2022. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022 . Retrieved 4 September 2022. Am I Being Unreasonable? has many points in its favour. Cooper remains an absurdly brilliant comic performer who is capable of heartbreaking moments of vulnerability, as she showed in This Country. Hizli is an equally fine actor and carries the dramatic scenes particularly well, where Cooper seems less comfortable. And what a gift they have in 13-year-old Rush, who has the comic chops and emotional range of an actor twice his age and the kind of chemistry with Cooper that is an absolute joy to watch. National Comedy Awards 2023 shortlists revealed". Chortle. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023 . Retrieved 23 January 2023. Comedy.co.uk Awards 2022 shortlist". Comedy.co.uk. 9 January 2023. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023 . Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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Am I Being Unreasonable Gets Second Series". Comedy.co.uk. 28 October 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023.

a b c d Goldbart, Max (29 March 2023). "Kate Winslet Scoops Big Acting Prize At RTS Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. The trouble is, what’s ‘reasonable’ to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What’s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we’re being reasonable, how can we figure out what’s right? a b Ramachandran, Naman (7 March 2023). "Kate Winslet, Kit Connor, Billie Piper in the Mix at Royal Television Society Program Awards Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. The moment that Lenny Rush found out he was in the running for a Bafta, he was in a hospital bed, recovering from spinal surgery. “That wasn’t a good mix,” he says, “because my mum went, ‘You’ve been nominated’ and I went …” He pretends to punch the air in triumph, then mimics extreme pain. “Aargh!” He laughs. In May, he won the TV Bafta for best male comedy performance for his role as Ollie in the BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable? as well as two Royal Television Society Programme awards in March. The show has, says Rush, “changed my life”. On 29 March 2023 the series won three awards at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards. [12] Lenny Rush won the Breakthrough Award, and Performance (Male) Award, and Daisy May Cooper won the Comedy Performance (Female). The show itself was nominated for the Comedy Drama Award at the same ceremony. [13] [14]Am I Being Unreasonable? is a 6-part British comedy-thriller series produced by Boffola Pictures and Lookout Point and written by, and starring, Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli. The series was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 26 September 2022. The series premiered in the United States on Hulu on 11 April 2023. A second series was commissioned by the BBC in October 2022. Kirsty Sedgman shows how power dynamics and the social biases involved have resulted in a wide acceptance of what people should and shouldn't do, but they create discriminatory realities and amount to a societal fa�ade that is dangerous for genuine social progress. From taking the knee to breastfeeding in public, from neighbourhood vigilantism to the Colston Four-and exploring ideas around ethics, justice, society, and equality along the way-Sedgman explores notions of civility throughout history up to now. Daisy May Cooper's new comedy-thriller being filmed in Bristol". Bristol Post. 1 November 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023. He enjoyed filming the BBC show Dodger because there are a lot of other children and young people in it. Rush plays a road sweeper, Morgan – a cheeky, cheerful boy who is, says Rush, probably the closest character to himself that he has played.