BBC One has announced details of a new Comedy Playhouse season.
Three new half-hour one-off specials will be broadcast on the channel later this year, featuring the likes of Hugh Dennis, My Mad Fat Diary star Sharon Rooney and Mark Heap.
Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine are among classic BBC sitcoms which were born out of former BBC Comedy Playhouse seasons.
Comedy commissioning controller Shane Allen said: "BBC One delivers enormous audiences for comedy and this season revival reflects our commitment in mainstream to do new and daring projects.
"We want BBC One to fly the flag of popular British comedy and want this dedicated space to promote tomorrow's classic comedy today."
Dennis and Neil Morrissey will star in Over To Bill, a sitcom from Red Dwarf writer Doug Naylor.
BBC weatherman Bill Onion (Dennis) is fired...
Three new half-hour one-off specials will be broadcast on the channel later this year, featuring the likes of Hugh Dennis, My Mad Fat Diary star Sharon Rooney and Mark Heap.
Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine are among classic BBC sitcoms which were born out of former BBC Comedy Playhouse seasons.
Comedy commissioning controller Shane Allen said: "BBC One delivers enormous audiences for comedy and this season revival reflects our commitment in mainstream to do new and daring projects.
"We want BBC One to fly the flag of popular British comedy and want this dedicated space to promote tomorrow's classic comedy today."
Dennis and Neil Morrissey will star in Over To Bill, a sitcom from Red Dwarf writer Doug Naylor.
BBC weatherman Bill Onion (Dennis) is fired...
- 3/18/2014
- Digital Spy
By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
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This Friday night, NBC will be airing a Halloween special called Mockingbird Lane, a TV movie based on the 1960s CBS comedy The Munsters.
Mockingbird Lane was not originally conceived as a movie. Instead, it was meant to be a series, but the Peacock network passed on ordering the drama to series.
Most unordered pilots disappear, never to be heard from again. It’s a rare move for NBC to show the completed pilot, but I’m glad it’s doing so.
The series is the brainchild of Bryan Fuller, the creator of ABC’s whimsical series Pushing Daisies, which ended in 2009 after two seasons. Since, Fuller worked on NBC’s eventually canceled drama Heroes, but this marks his full return to TV — and the trailer for Mockingbird Lane is reminiscent of Pushing Daisies in tone and style.
“Airing a pilot as a standalone seems unheard of,...
Television Editor & Columnist
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This Friday night, NBC will be airing a Halloween special called Mockingbird Lane, a TV movie based on the 1960s CBS comedy The Munsters.
Mockingbird Lane was not originally conceived as a movie. Instead, it was meant to be a series, but the Peacock network passed on ordering the drama to series.
Most unordered pilots disappear, never to be heard from again. It’s a rare move for NBC to show the completed pilot, but I’m glad it’s doing so.
The series is the brainchild of Bryan Fuller, the creator of ABC’s whimsical series Pushing Daisies, which ended in 2009 after two seasons. Since, Fuller worked on NBC’s eventually canceled drama Heroes, but this marks his full return to TV — and the trailer for Mockingbird Lane is reminiscent of Pushing Daisies in tone and style.
“Airing a pilot as a standalone seems unheard of,...
- 10/25/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
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