Critics sneered at Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson's flat-share losers but audiences loved their anarchic sitcom with its double ...

The 1990s were a golden age for British sitcoms, with some of the best-loved and most enduring comedies of all time airing ...

No need to convince me — British comedy is pure gold. Wit, understated humor, and self-deprecation add to the quintessential British tendency to laugh at one's misfortunes. Rarely brash, English ...

The British sitcom has long been the subject of media academics. From the famous Monty Python group, to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's groundbreaking The Office, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's ...

American TV bosses obviously didn’t learn many lessons from “Episodes,” the Showtime/BBC co-production which brilliantly skewered the habit of adapting British sitcoms, and removing all nuances, ...

Comedy producers have been told to locate their “funny bones” when pitching shows to the BBC by the most powerful person in British comedy commissioning. Jon Petrie, who runs BBC comedy, set out his ...

O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy will be at the Gateway Theatre on Friday, Nov. 14 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov ...

Freevee's "Dinner with the Parents" is the latest re-do which fails to justify its existence. American TV bosses obviously didn’t learn many lessons from “Episodes,” the Showtime/BBC co-production ...