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Topical impression show Dead Ringers is to return to Radio 4 in June. Following the death of creator Bill Dare, the BBC have ...
This time we're meeting Grubby Little Mitts - Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Beau Brown - who are taking their latest show to ...
Channel 4 has commissioned Schooled, a six-part comedy series based on writer Delia-René Donaldson's real experiences of ...
Pushers, a sitcom starring Rosie Jones as a drug dealer, launches on Channel 4 in June. The show, written by Jones and Peter Fellows, started life as a Comedy Blaps pilot in 2022 titled Disability ...
Every great comedy character needs a core trait that generates conflict and comedy. This trait must be consistent but not one ...
West End legend Elaine Paige is making a sitcom with comedian Jason Cook. The musical star is set to lead the television comedy focused on retirement, which has the working title Take A Bow and is ...
One of the most common weaknesses in sitcom scripts from new writers is a lack of authenticity. Their characters and situations float in a vague, generic space, never quite feeling real. Great sitcoms ...
The semi-improvised sitcom about the Brockman family, which, like Drop The Dead Donkey, is written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, returned after eight years for a special on BBC One at Christmas, ...
A rare piece of Gavin & Stacey memorabilia will be available to one lucky winner in a raffle launched by Hertfordshire-based charity DENS. DENS is a local charity that helps rebuild the lives of ...
One of the things that set Smack The Pony apart at the time was a willingness to commit to the silly and surreal, with short, sharp sketches that got to the gag quickly and did not rely on ...
Featuring a full 158 episodes over 14 series, the show was hugely popular in its time, starring Haynes in all his pomp alongside Nicholas Parsons. It was written by Johnny Speight. Arthur Haynes was ...