Comedy Features
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Behind The Scenes
Protecting the secrets of Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
From surprise guest appearances to avoiding the paps, how James Corden, Ruth Jones and the crew pulled off the iconic sitcom’s final episode
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The Broadcast Interview
Steven Moffat on Douglas Is Cancelled and theatrical rejection
The Doctor Who and Sherlock scribe discusses the long route to getting his new ITV drama on screen and taking the Tardis out for another spin
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The Broadcast Interview
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton: Closing the door on No. 9
Creators and stars of the black comedy anthology series on pulling down the shutters after nine series and wrestling with the best kind of send-off
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Behind The Scenes
Big Mood, Channel 4
Executive producer Lotte Beasley Mestriner on visually depicting the experience of bipolar disorder, while keeping things funny and on budget
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Behind The Scenes
Things You Should Have Done, BBC3
Lucia Keskin shot to fame on YouTube parodying sitcoms - Robin Parker finds out how the 23-year-old came to be running one of her own
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The Broadcast Interview
Rosie Jones: “I’m not the disabled poster girl”
Rosie Jones on the tricky balance between humour and activism and why the cynic in her thinks she’s ‘just the right amount of disabled’ for TV
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Behind The Scenes
The complex journey to air Blackadder's pilot episode
Executive producer Tom Edwards explains the challenges of bringing the 40-year-old pilot of a beloved show to TV for the first time
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The Broadcast Interview
Catherine Reitman: Workin’ hard
As Workin’ Moms kicks off its final series, its creator reflects on how a primarily female team helped capture motherhood in all its messy details
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The Broadcast Interview
Joe Lycett: a rebel with a cause
The comedian and consumer affairs champion discusses breaking free from formats, the pull of live TV and going viral
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Behind The Scenes
Live at the Moth Club, Dave & UKTV Play
Director Rupert Majendie on bringing live ensemble comedy to UK television screens
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Behind The Scenes
Ghosts (US), BBC3
Joe Port explains how he and writing partner Joe Wiseman approached moving a show about British history across the Atlantic
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Behind The Scenes
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, Channel 4
Executive producer James Stevenson Bretton on turning six-minute YouTube videos into half-hour sitcom episodes
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Behind The Scenes
Dead Canny, Dave
TriForce’s Fraser Ayres explains how the initiative which created its comedy pilot sought to platform new and underrepresented talent
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Behind The Scenes
Bad Sisters, AppleTV+
Executive producer Faye Dorn on the making of Merman’s dark comedy thriller
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Behind The Scenes
Newark, Newark, Gold
It took five years for our regional comedy to be greenlit, but it was worth the wait, says executive producer Dave Evans
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The Broadcast Interview
Neil & Rob Gibbons: From Partridge to The Witchfinder
Writer and director twins on their new comedy series along with their plan to set up a production label
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Behind The Scenes
Screw, Channel 4
We wanted our drama to show the full range of human life that exists behind bars, says STVS exec Sarah Brown
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Behind The Scenes
Getting The Emily Atack Show back on stage
Shooting for the second run of ITV2’s sketch series from Monkey Kingdom ended as we’d hoped – in a room full of laughing comedy fans, says Avril Spary
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The Broadcast Interview
Nida Manzoor: The punk spirit behind We Are Lady Parts
Writer and director on taking inspiration from her own life for her new C4 comedy about a Muslim female punk band
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Behind The Scenes
Bloods: Mining a fresh vein of comedy
Samson Kayo, Nathan Bryon and Ash Atalla explain how a sliding-doors moment led to the two young talents being entrusted with a major sitcom