The Smoking Room
The Smoking Room, 2004
At the time of it's first transmission this unusual sitcom was hailed as the next classic. It's important to remember that at the time of it's transmission there was no smoking ban in f...
Live At The Apollo, 2004
Is This The Natural Successor To That Cult 1970's Show?
Back in 1971, legendary TV producer: Johnnie Hamp, broke new ground when he put together a group of comedians from the Northern circuit. Putting them in...
Newzoids
Newzoids, 2015
After the end of Spitting Image there was a gap left for biting political satire. Five years after came 2DTV. Lasting five series that ended in 2004. Next was Headcases, in 2008 that lasted j...
Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights
Phoenix Nights, 2001
Peter Kay's hugely popular and BAFTA-nominated British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Farnworth, Greater Manchester.The show was a ...
Mountain Goats
Mountain Goats, 2015
In 2014, the BBC marked the 60th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour first being broadcast on radio with a series of re-makes of episodes missing from the archives, this was entitled the Mi...
Minder – The Revived Series
Minder - 2009
We keep asking the question "is There Life In Those Old Shows?" It's unbelievable how many shows have been re-made or updated.Minder was a classic comedy drama that couldn't have been better ...
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad, 2010
It's often the most simple ideas that bring in the laughs, lets face it it was the sight of a rag and bone man going about his business that gave Galton and Simpson the idea for Steptoe a...
Blackadder: Back And Forth
Blackadder: Back And Forth - 1999
Blackaddder Back & Forth brought the famous historical send up series to an end. Screened some ten years after what was to have been the final instalment, Blackadder Goes...
The Royle Family
The Royle Family, 1998
Popular BAFTA award winning sitcom The Royle Family will reach twenty this September.The original series ran for 3 seasons. It was resurrected in 2006 for a one off special “The Que...
Impressions And Satire On The Radio……
Dead Ringers - Radio Series - 2000 - 2007
Dead Ringers started out life as a Radio Series before making it to television. Devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blac...