'There She Goes' is a Heartbreaking Comedy

It’s almost as challenging to describe There She Goes, an extraordinary show, as it is to watch. Full of black humor, anger, and sadness, it is brutally honest about the challenges of parenting a severely learning-disabled child while also being very funny. The husband-wife writing team of Shaun Pye and Sarah Crawford are the parents of a learning-disabled daughter, Joey, and as they say in Britain, sometimes you have to laugh. Pye told the BBC, “Some people might think that comedy is not the appropriate form for this. They’re entitled to their opinion, and that’s fine. But what we’re doing is truthful. If funny things have happened to us, then why shouldn’t we put them on TV?”

I've never read something that covers the struggles of being a parent, whatever those struggles are, with such honesty, such humour and such warmth ... All parents go through dark nights, and all parents go through all kinds of challenges.—Jessica Hynes, BBC

The series initially ran on the BBC from 2018 to 2020, with a final one-episode Season 3 in 2023. The series brings together David Tennant (Litvinenko) and Jessica Hynes (Miss Austen) for the first time since their 2007 Doctor Who days as couple Simon and Emily, a bright, geeky pair with interesting jobs, an enviable Victorian terrace house and a delightful young son Ben (played first by Oliver Gibbs and later as a teenager by Edan Hayhurst).