Citizen Khan, 2012
In 2015 comedy is big business, whilst comedians are playing to packed houses, sitcom land is still playing catch up.There have been some high profile successful sitcoms over recent years: Not Going Out, W1...
Bremner’s Back With A Unique Look At The Election
Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner returns to the BBC tonight for a one off special - Rory Bremner's Election report.Speaking on BBC breakfast on Tuesday he said the previous coalition government was d...
EastEnders 30 Years Old Today
Unless you live on planet Mars it can't have escaped your notice that the BBC has an anniversary to celebrate. EastEnders may well have reached the grand old age of 30, but by and large it's not had many laugh...
Waiting For God, 1990
This often overlooked classic from the 1990's made humour from what was by then becoming a growing business - retirement homes. The series ran for five series totaling forty seven episodes between 1990 and 199...
2Point4 Children, 1991
Huge BBC hit sitcom from the 90's, that in it's early days regularly drew audiences of 14 million. It ran for eight series, five Christmas Specials, a total of fifty six episodes.The final episode on 30th ...
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, 1989
A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.It started life in 1987 a 35 minute pilot episode...
Galton And Simpson Present – Part 6
Divided We Stand, 1972
For the last five weeks legendary scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have been sharing their favourite episodes from their hugely successful career. Today we reach the final part...
Galton And Simpson Present – Part 5
Steptoe And Son - The Desperate Hours, 1972
As we reach the end of this series, for the penultimate part Galton and Simpson turn their attention to their other huge success: Steptoe and Son.G&S: The ep...
British Classic Comedy Talk to Galton and Simpon – Hancock, 1961
Hancock - The Final BBC TV Series
This year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the very first Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio. Looking back at sixty years of the great British sitcom. Earlier in the year we...
Galton And Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 2
We left matters in the 1960's with the series being a runaway success, we pick up the story in 1965.BCC: Did you feel Steptoe had come to a natural end in 1965 after four seriesG & S: Yes we did, we...