South Wales Echo (Cardiff), 19 February 2002.
"What to watch: Haver-ing a fun time."
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It's time to get all revved up for BBC2's latest comedy 
drama, *Manchild.*

Nigel Havers displays his usual charm and charisma as a vain 
40-something male hellbent on reliving his youth.

He's vain, he rides a motorbike, just the sort of thing he 
reckons will turn him into a babe magnet. But there's no 
escaping his age - you know, the ex-wife, the grown-up 
children...

It's a comedy which definitely owes something to *Sex and 
the City*. As with *City*'s Carrie, Nigel moves the action 
along in voiceover.

The action is, of course, trying to attract any mini-skirted 
young thing who might be attracted to an older man's suave 
good looks - and deep pockets!

*Buffy*'s Anthony Head, *Rising Damp*'s Don Warrington and 
Ray Burdis play Nigel's mates, who are suffering from 
growing pains too.

Nick Fisher's clever script means we actually find these men 
both amusingly ridiculous and sympathetic.



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