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BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary
The BBC Radio Comedy Writers' Bursary (or the ''BBC Radio Comedy Department Contract Writer'') is a scheme through which emerging comedy writers work in-house at the BBC Radio Comedy department for a year. History The scheme began in 1978 and was devised by the then-head of Head of BBC Light Entertainment (Radio), David Hatch, and BBC Television's Head of Light Entertainment, James Gilbert. Each department put £5000 a year into a kitty to employ three young writers on a one-year contract. The only proviso was that there was to be no contract for a second year, and that the writers must then fend for themselves. The first beneficiaries were Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville and Guy Jenkin, who were followed by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor (Red Dwarf). Since then, the scheme has helped several aspiring or part-time writers to go full-time and has produced a great number of professional writers and comedians, including John O'Farrell, Peter Baynham, Stewart Lee and Simon Blackwell (The Thick O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hatch
Sir David Edwin Hatch, (7 May 1939 – 13 June 2007) "''Just a Minute''" site was an English broadcaster, involved in production and management at where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment (Radio), Controller of and and later managing director of BBC Radio. Education Born in Barns ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Ringers (Comedy)
''Dead Ringers'' is a British radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. Among its stars was Jan Ravens. The BBC cancelled the television run in 2007 after five years. ''Dead Ringers return to Radio 4 was announced in 2014. History The programme first aired on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000. ''Dead Ringers'' returned to radio in July 2014. In November 2001 BBC One said it had commissioned a pilot for a television version. The pilot was well received and in August 2002 a full series was commissioned, this time on BBC Two. The TV show ran for seven series and was axed in April 2009. In 2002 the BBC's ''Arena'' broadcast a documentary about the series entitled ''Radio Ha! - Meet The Dead Ringers'', directed by Fisher Dilke. It featured interviews with the cast and writers, and behind-the-scenes footage from a studio recording f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Barham
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Barham (20 November 1976 – 20 April 2003) was an English comedy writer who died at the age of 26 of heart failure brought on as a result of anorexia. As well as writing for TV and radio, Barham wrote columns for newspapers and magazines. Life Debbie Barham was born 20 November 1976 in Sheffield, England. She was educated at Sheffield High School, South Yorkshire, and was a bright student, but left school early as she was unhappy there. She began her professional writing career aged 15. Barham moved to London aged 16 and was working as a BBC contract writer aged 17. In 1995, Barham developed anorexia nervosa. Her early work was submitted under the name D. A. Barham, out of concern that a teenage girl would not be accepted in a world traditionally dominated by Oxbridge-educated men. During her 11-year career she wrote for comedians including Clive Anderson, Rory Bremner, Angus Deayton Gordon Angus Deayton (; born 6 January 1956) is an Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Powell (writer)
Paul Powell is a British comedy writer and producer, best known for his work on ''Miranda'', '' Al Murray's Happy Hour'' and ''Smack The Pony''. Career Powell attended St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he studied English Literature and performed in the Oxford Revue alongside film director Richard Bracewell. He started his career in 1991 by writing sketches for the Radio 4 series "Week Ending" before joining the writing team for Spitting Image, where he collaborated with Georgia Pritchett, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley. In 1995, he worked with Dan Gaster, writing and performing in two series of the Radio 4 sketch show "We Know Everything." With Dan Gaster, Will Ing and Ben Silburn, he wrote and performed in "Stuff The Week," a late night topical comedy show for ITV. His television work includes MirandaAlexander Armstrong's Big Ask Al Murray’s Happy Hour, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Would I Lie To You, Smith & Jones, The One Griff, TV To Go, The Guest List, Top Gear, Text ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Cecil
Kevin Robert Cecil (born 1969 in London) is a British screenwriter. Writing alongside Andy Riley (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School), he has won two BAFTA awards, the first for writing the Comic Relief one-off special '' Robbie the Reindeer'' in 2000, and the second for '' Black Books'' in 2005. He went to Oxford University where he attended New College reading English Literature. He has also written for '' The Armando Iannucci Shows'', '' Armstrong & Miller'', '' Little Britain'', '' Trigger Happy TV'', '' So Graham Norton'', '' Smack the Pony'' and '' Spitting Image'' and on radio he co-created ''The 99p Challenge''. The second ''Robbie the Reindeer'' special, "Legend of the Lost Tribe", which Cecil and Riley co-wrote won an International Emmy for best children's programme in 2003. Kevin also co-created and wrote a Sci-Fi comedy series for television entitled '' Hyperdrive''. The first series aired on BBC2 in 2006, and the second serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Riley
Andy Riley (born 1970) is a British author, cartoonist, and Emmy-winning screenwriter for TV and film. Riley has written and drawn many best-selling cartoon books, including ''The Book of Bunny Suicides'' (2003) and its sequels, and ''Great Lies To Tell Small Kids'' (2005). From 2002 until February 2010 he drew a weekly comic strip called ''Roasted'' in '' The Observer Magazine'', a collection of which was released in book form in 2007. Riley also publishes the King Flashypants series of children's books''.'' With Kevin Cecil, his friend since they attended Aylesbury Grammar School, he created and wrote the sitcoms ''Year of the Rabbit'' for Channel 4 and IFC, ''The Great Outdoors'' for BBC Four, '' Hyperdrive'' for BBC Two and ''Slacker Cats'' for the ABC Family Channel. Their other television work includes '' Veep'' (for which they each won an Emmy in 2015 in the Outstanding Comedy Series category), '' Black Books'', the Comic Relief one-off special '' Robbie the Reindeer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Coleman
Clive Coleman (born October 1961) is an English barrister turned journalist, who, from 2010 to 2020, has been the BBC News Legal Correspondent. He is also a playwright, film and sitcom writer. Early Years Coleman grew up in North London attending Dame Alice Owen's School and then University College School. He studied English Literature at York University from 1981–84, before taking a Law conversion course and then the Bar Finals in 1985 to qualify as a barrister. Law Called to the bar in 1986, he practised from the chambers of Robin Stewart QC, He worked in criminal law (both for defence and Crown Prosecution Service), and civil law (insolvency, medical negligence and property). In 1990 he left full time practice and taught on the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, becoming a Principal Lecturer. Coleman holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of West London. In 2018 he was made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple. Both award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee). He is described by ''The British Theatre Guide'' as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". Towards the end of the double act, Herring also worked as a writer, producing four plays. After Lee and Herring went their separate ways he co-wrote the sitcom '' Time Gentlemen Please'', but quickly returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like '' Talking Cock'', ''Hitler Moustache'' and ''Christ on a Bike'' as well as regular circuit stand-up. Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD. His 2016–17 show was a 'best of' tour, drawing from these shows. Herring is recognised as a pioneer of comedy podcasting, initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Burton (writer)
Mark Burton (born 23 September 1960) is a British television writer, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and film director. Television and radio career After turning up at BBC Radio's Light Entertainment Department, Burton teamed up with John O'Farrell and the two were commissioned for ''Week Ending'' by Harry Thompson (who later named his two pet rats Burton and O'Farrell). The pair won the BBC Light Entertainment Contract Award, and went on to write or contribute to a number of radio series, including ''Little Blighty on the Down'', ''McKay the New'' and with Pete Sinclair, the multi-award-winning ''A Look Back at the Nineties'' and ''Look Back at the Future'' in which Burton also performed. "RadioHaHa". Burton also created the BBC Radio 4 panel game ''We've Been Here Before'' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Punt
Stephen Mark Punt (born 15 September 1962)Mr Stephen Mark Punt company-director-check.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012. is a British comedy writer, comedian and actor. Along with , he is part of the double act and presenter of satirical news programme ''''. He is also a writer and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Whiting
Alan Whiting is a British screenwriter who has written for ''Wire in the Blood'' and ''Kingdom'' (which he also co-created). Career Whiting's career began in the mid 1960s, contributing episodes to '' The Newcomers'', a BBC soap opera which dealt with a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. Into the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote for multiple series, such as '' Heartbeat'', '' El C.I.D.'', ''Boon'' and ''See You Friday''. In the 2000s, Whiting wrote for the period swashbuckler ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' and ''Steel River Blues''. " The Darkness of Light", one of his ''Wire in the Blood'' episodes, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Television Feature Or Mini-Series Teleplay in 2005. He adapted '' Half Broken Things'' as a television movie for Festival Films and it was broadcast on ITV in 2007. He later wrote the historical miniseries '' Titanic: Blood and Steel'' and some episodes of the first series of '' Strike B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moray Hunter
Moray Hunter (born 6 October 1957, Hawick, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, writer and performer. He starred in the Channel 4 sketch show, '' Absolutely''. Alongside Jack Docherty he played one half of the eccentric double-act, Don and George, in ''Absolutely'' and later in the spin-off series, '' Mr. Don and Mr. George''. Moray also provided the voice for a shadow puppet in one of Aardman Animations' short films, ''Humdrum''. As a writer, Moray has contributed to '' Smack the Pony'', '' Alas Smith and Jones'', ''Spitting Image'', ''The Lenny Henry Show'', ''The Clan'' and the animated series of ''Meg and Mog Meg and Mog is a series of children's books written by Helen Nicoll and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski. First published in the 1970s, the books are about Meg, a witch whose spells always seem to go wrong, her striped cat Mog, and their friend Ow ...''; and on radio to '' Radio Active'' and '' Alone''. External links * BiographyoAbsolutely.biz References Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
