John Bishop On A Saturday Night
John Bishop's Britain, 2010
Now a household name, here's a man who started his career in stand up playing to audiences of 17 people – Mr John Bishop.John Bishop had been around for a few years with guest a...
The Catherine Tate Show
The Catherine Tate Show, 2004
Catherine Tate had begun stand up comedy in 1996. However it was at an after show party at the Edinburgh Festival that then BBC controller of comedy, Geoffrey Perkins encouraged ...
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...
BBC Comedy Playhouse
BBC Comedy Playhouse - 2014
In March of 2014, following in the footsteps of a trend of reviving old shows the BBC announced the return of the classic Comedy Playhouse.The press release headline read:"S...
High Hopes
High Hopes, 2002
High hopes was a BBC sitcom set in a fictional area of South wales. It was produced by Gareth Gwenlan of Only Fools and Horses fame.After a pilot episode was broadcast nationwide on the B...
The Mighty Boosh TV Series
The Mighty Boosh, 2004
The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.The idea developed when Noel Fielding watched Julian Barratt performing his stand up...
Bucket, No Not Hyacinth
Bucket, 2017
In November 2016 BBC Comedy announced " a brand new, bittersweet comedy called Bucket, written by and starring Frog Stone, with Miriam Margolyes playing her madcap Mother"Broadcast in four epi...
Warren
Warren, 2019
Warren was the BBC sitcom that seemed to show great promise, Martin Clunes playing an angry, impatient character. You could be forgiven for thinking perhaps we were in for a modern take on the cl...
Rev
Rev, 2010
Rev started life as one of a number of trial sitcoms that aired on BBC2 in 2010.The series became an instant hit not just finding favour with the viewers, but the church itself, and was commissio...
My Hero
My Hero - 2000
It's the one with the Irish superhero, the TV Doctor and that brilliant Doctor's receptionist.Running for six series (fifty one episodes), My Hero was a brilliant piece of send up of the way...