That's Love was only a moderate hit with viewers, averaging at 8.48 million viewers/47th place in the charts.
However, it must be noted that the sitcom was placed in a post-watershed, 9:30pm timeslot, where it would be unlikely to compete with primetime programmes.
The ratings for each individual episode are listed under their respective entries.
However, it must be noted that the sitcom was placed in a post-watershed, 9:30pm timeslot, where it would be unlikely to compete with primetime programmes.
The ratings for each individual episode are listed under their respective entries.
The series got a fairly positive write-up in The Times (26th February 1988), with the newspaper commenting:
"Jimmy Mulville's friends have told him what they think of That's Love. They do not understand why a Cambridge Footlights president, who went on to produce Radio Four's sparky Radio Active and star in three series of Channel 4's first satire show, Who Dares Wins, wants to play the lead in an ITV sitcom - let alone one about a professional couples, nannies and mother-in-laws.
In mitigation, That's Love, of which the final episode is transmitted tomorrow at 9.30pm, is actually rather funny. It is no Fawlty Towers, but Terence Frisby's scripts are nicely structured, the jokes burn slowly but ignite surely, and (a rare thing in British comedies) actors stay in character to deliver punchlines."
"Jimmy Mulville's friends have told him what they think of That's Love. They do not understand why a Cambridge Footlights president, who went on to produce Radio Four's sparky Radio Active and star in three series of Channel 4's first satire show, Who Dares Wins, wants to play the lead in an ITV sitcom - let alone one about a professional couples, nannies and mother-in-laws.
In mitigation, That's Love, of which the final episode is transmitted tomorrow at 9.30pm, is actually rather funny. It is no Fawlty Towers, but Terence Frisby's scripts are nicely structured, the jokes burn slowly but ignite surely, and (a rare thing in British comedies) actors stay in character to deliver punchlines."