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25 February 2019

When new couple Peter (writer and star Rufus Jones – W1A, Inside No. 9, Camping, Hunderby) and Katy (Rebekah Staton - Happy-Go-Lucky, Pulling) – and Katy’s son John – go on their first family holiday to France, the plan is to bring back a tan, a few happy memories and six crates of vintage champagne. What they actually bring back is going to come as a big surprise… Sami (Youssef Kerkour - Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Baghdad Central), a Syrian refugee who enters Britain illegally to claim asylum. Living in with Peter, Katy and John, Sami and his adoptive family discover and come to terms with what a home really means.

Home starts March 5th at 21:45 on Channel 4

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25 Feb 19 Press Pack Article

Home: Programme Information

A new comedy created and written by Rufus Jones. Sami, an asylum-seeker from Syria arrives in Britain and finds himself living with a family in Dorking, Surrey. Over the next few months, while Sami waits for his application to be processed, he learns more than he expected about the people he’s

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with writer Rufus Jones (Peter)

Can you explain the premise of the show? A very middle-class English, family go on holiday to France in their quite spacious Audi. They have a lovely holiday and come back, they open the boot to unpack and there’s a Syrian refugee. After the initial shock, Katy, and her son John, welcome the refugee

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with Rebekah Staton (Katy)

Explain a bit about your new series, Home. A couple drive home after a holiday in France to find a refugee in their boot. I’ve not met someone yet who after hearing that sentence isn’t intrigued to see the show. Especially when I tell them it is a comedy. And on Channel 4. You play Katy – what’s her

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: interview with Youssef Kerkour (Sami)

Explain a little bit about your new series, Home. What I always tell people is “Just think of Paddington, but instead of a cuddly bear, it’s a big cuddly Syrian refugee.” It’s a story of a refugee who sneaks into the back of a car belonging to a lovely middle-class family on their way home from

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with adviser Hassan Akkad

How did you get involved in this project? Rufus Jones got in touch three or four months before they started filming. Initially he asked me to do a bit of research for him and work with him on the scripts to check if everything that had to do with the asylum process and Sami’s process is as realistic