channel 4 go regal with their sitcom the windsors

The Royals And Comedy

TV Comedy
How Comedy Has Portrayed The Royal Family Looking back over the years it seems no subject has been spared by comedy writers, even the Royal family.  From pranks on Beadle's About to satire, they even get their...

Father Dear Father In Australia

TV Comedy
Father Dear Father In Australia, 1978 Between 1968 and 1973 Father Dear Father had been a huge ratings winner for ITV.Five years after the original series finished the show popped up for a new series in Au...

Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights

2000's, C4 Comedy, TV Comedy
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 ...
arthur lowe takes on a new direction as he plays a parish priest in bless me father

Sunday Service With The Sitcom

TV Comedy
The Vicar And The Sitcom For many years the traditional Sunday morning church service has been a staple of the British way of life.  It's therefore only fitting that the local vicar should play a part in sitco...
british classic comedy talk to carla lane

Carla Lane: The Ones That Got Away

TV Comedy
Carla Lane's Forgotten Sitcoms Carla Lane broke the tradition of all male sitcom writers when alongside Myra Taylor she created The Liver Birds.  Other successes followed.  We all remember her work on Bless Th...

Re-made In The USA

TV Comedy
UK Sitcoms That Were Re-made In The USA Sitcoms have been part of the fabric of British society since the 1950's.  We've seen some classics over the years, but it's not just Britain that likes it's sitcoms. ...
bob monkhouse gameshow host, comedian and all round entertainer

You Can’t Keep A Good Show Down

TV Comedy
Even If You Re-Name It..... There is always a debate to be had around whether or not the old shows are the best, often people laugh at wobbly sets or are just not interested in old.  If these vintage shows are...