Sam Wollaston The Guardian, Thursday 30 January 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n ….There’s a better family sitcom currently on elsewhere \u2013 Uncle on BBC3 (you pretty much have to go beyond two for a BBC laugh now, House of Fools being the exception).<\/p>\n Uncle also celebrates generational differences and misunderstandings, but much more joyously. The uncle (played by Nick Helm) is disastrous but weirdly likable; the kid is nerdy and lovely. They’re wrong though and I’m right…..<\/p>\n
\nThey have adventures, it’s more outrageous, bolder, more inappropriate, darker, quirkier (there’s singing).
\nAnd \u2013 crucially \u2013 funny.
\nWhich Outnumbered isn’t. Maybe once I chuckled to myself, when Pete and his elder son were accusing each other of being racist.
\nThat’s it, though. And yet it’s adored by literally every other critic and it’s won a ton of awards.<\/p>\n