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Turn Up Charlie - Season 1
The series offers a strong musical model called Charlie. Charlie DJ is a beginner and always tries to rebuild his musical career with more work and determination, but he may face great challenges. Charlie continues his career while at the same time raising the daughter of his 11-year-old friend. The events start when the new Charlie concert begins at a difficult start, where he will attend a party full of prominent figures in the music industry.
October 10, 1987 in England, UK
22 December 1944, Bristol, England, UK
1 April 1978, Boulder, Colorado, USA
1972, Balham, London, England, UK
September 7, 1998 in Buenos Aires City, Distrito Federal, Argentina
March 14, 2019
Though it can be binge-watched painlessly enough,... Turn Up Charlie is such a disassembled example of a "Welcome to my world" TV show that it ought to come with its own Allen wrench.
March 14, 2019
Elba has a nice rapport with all of his co-stars, Hervey in particular, but the whole thing just left me wanting to see Elba demonstrate his chops in a better-written comedy.
March 14, 2019
The only consistent pleasure of Turn Up Charlie is, most likely, the only reason you gave this show a shot in the first place: the copious footage of Idris Elba DJing...
March 12, 2019
If Turn Up Charlie never fully catches fire, exactly, it crackles along quite pleasantly - evolving, over the course of eight episodes, into something a lot more tangled and interesting than its initial premise suggests.
March 08, 2019
Idris, a keen DJ himself under the name Driis, milks much humour from Charlie's "old man" persona in the digital playground of modern beats.
March 14, 2019
Turn Up Charlie plays like an engrossing screwball battle of wits between the DJ and his 12-year-old charge, a cruel Gen Z spawn from Hell played by an extraordinary child newcomer, Frankie Hervey.
March 13, 2019
Turn Up Charlie does a fantastic job of winding up self-centered twits into tossing epic fits and snits. If only it expended as much effort on making things, you know, funny.
March 05, 2019
It's frustrating to see an artist with such ambition settle for something so elementary. It's harmless, sure, but it's also inconsequential and unkempt.
March 14, 2019
The frankly painful new series - it can't decide if it's a sitcom, comedy-drama or children's soap.
March 14, 2019
Unfortunately, this series really contains two mismatched shows that cannibalize each other and take down the whole ship.