AOL Television, 14th February 2011 - Article by Mic Wright

Mad Dogs: Maddeningly good

If you were to make a Fantasy Football-style league with British TV actors, you'd be bloody delighted to have Philip Glenister (in far less geezerish form thant his turn in Ashes To Ashes), Marc Warren, John Simm, Max Beesley and Ben Chaplin on your team. That was the five-man squad at the heart of Mad Dogs, Sky One's brutal little gem of a drama which kicked off last week.

The tale of Alvo (Chaplin) asking his mates to visit his Spanish villa - which it seems was funded with less than legit cash - was, by turns funny, surprising and shocking.
The final scene which saw a dwarf in a Tony Blair mask blowing out Alvo's brains and leaving the rest of the lads inadvertently implicated in his death would be one of this year's most iconic scenes if it weren't tucked away on Sky1.
Hopefully not everyone with a subscription is gorging themselves on the HBO fare offered by Sky Atlantic. Mad Dogs is proof we Brits can do quality drama as well as anyone.