Writing is, as I tell my nieces when explaining verbs, “a doing word” – by which I mean, to qualify as a writer, you really need to be engaged i...
With the death of Richard Briers at the age of 79, Britain has sadly lost one of its finest and best-loved comedy actors. Paying tribute to the man...
Can't stand the sitcom 'Mrs Brown's Boys'? You're not alone. Take some solace in our trailer for the episode we all want to see. (Created for Huffi...
Recent weeks have taught us there is no TV drama or film so gritty or serious that it can't be reimagined as a sitcom. We've seen it with 'Game of Thr...
What makes bedsit noir so very British? American noir, however dark, has guns and dames and wisecracks. Its characters are thwarted in the active pursuit of their dreams, as they chase the Maltese Falcon or plot that one last heist.
Stephen Merchant Pilot Gets Series Order at HBO The 'Office' co-creator, who penned the script with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, will star in...
The third series of comedy 'Miranda' will end with her finally finding love. And the Christmas cliffhanger will tee up a big screen version to be s...
The hit sitcom Husbands released its second episode of season 2, "The Straightening," last week, and now you can watch a behind-the-scenes video featu...
Bad Education is currently top of the "Most Popular" programmes on BBC iPlayer, so I thought I'd give it a look. Oh dear. It quickly becomes clear that the writer has never spent any time in a state school. Or in a multi-cultural environment of any kind.
Aside from getting confused about how anyone can listen to more than three dubstep tracks in a row without feeling like they need a shit, I am wary of criticising anything or pretending that it was much better in my day.
Whether they've been set around kitchen tables or living room sofas, in working class lives or elite intellectual ones, family sitcoms have been a sta...
Rejection is something we all have to go through and it doesn't ever get any easier. Rejection is not a nice feeling; just picture those X-Factor hopefuls who turn up dressed a bit like a holiday camp magician and sing like an adenoidal cat mewling through an inner tube.
Only now has Phillips' off-kilter disposition brought her a lead role. Could that be why she's acting so anxious? Sally Phillips is anxious. Though...
Writers Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh take Hannah Verdier into the telly clinks that inspired their new BBC3 sitcom. 1 Good lawyers? Forget it Ide...
Jerry Seinfeld's sophisticated, strange sitcom inspired a whole generation of comics - so why is there nothing quite like it today?...
When soap stars are interviewed they are inevitably asked about being recognised in public, not as themselves, but as their characters.
So, the hotly anticipated, latest US import New Girl has arrived, and, judging by the very mixed reviews the show has garnered, it's caused somewhat of a Zooey-shaped stir. Reviews are divided, the twittersphere even more so. Just who is that girl?
I have a confession to make. I posted recently about my leaving Twitter. Well, it's true I did but the good people at Tweet central give you 30 days in which to chew on the prospect of committing social suicide and it pains me to say I did skulk back like a recently divorced man to his mother.
Since I've started writing a new sitcom spec for radio I thought it would be rude not to blog about it. Presently it's called, Owen Crumb Lives With His Mum and does what it says on the tin.
I shouldn't admit this but I totally relate to Red Dwarf's Lister. He's a lazy, curry munching dreamer with no ambition and even less personal hygiene. I try hard not to be like him and do things like this blog, writing for radio and not being a stranger to showers
Watching sitcoms is Britain's top cheering up activity, according to a survey into viewing habits. More than two thirds of respond...
In the wake of last week's X Factor, I found myself deliberating on the genre in to which this televisual behemoth should be placed.
Gag-merchants Matthew Mark and Luke N. John booked themselves a place in comedy heaven with Jesus and his 12 Apostles. This startlingly inventive story of a loony carpenter and his rag-tag bunch of followers was the Word in event television.
