Sitcom Geek

This week is a very bad week for the British sitcom. It's probably not the first week of its kind. And won't be the last of its kind...

Over the last few days, I've seen a few episodes of It's Gary Shandling's Show . It ran for 4 years, and they made 72 episodes i...

Why do people watch television? One of the reasons is to escape from real life. The problem is that truth is stranger than fiction. So when ...

In case my last post seemed a little negative and critical, here's something joyous and wonderful. I see that Channel 4 have posted larg...

I know that Bellamy's People is not a sitcom, and therefore slightly out of the range of this blog but there are some lessons that do c...

The problem is with comedy - or one of the problems - is that everyone has an opinion. Because our great sitcoms are cherished so deeply, an...

Some readers of this blog may be wondering what on earth qualifies me to talk and write about sitcom. For a sample of my work, BBC7 are repe...