Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons are an English

screenwriting Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession. Screenwriters are responsible for researching the story, deve ...

duo from

Sandbach Sandbach (pronounced ) is the name of a historic market town and a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. The civil parish contains four settlements: Sandbach itself as the largest, Elworth, Ettiley Heath ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's coun ...

. The twin brothers are best known for cowriting several

Alan Partridge Alan Gordon Partridge is a comedy character portrayed by the English actor Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is a tactless and inept broadcaster with an inflated sense of celebrity. Since his debut in 1991, h ...

projects, including ''

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge ''Mid Morning Matters'' is a British digital radio show parody written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, sta ...

'', '' Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life'', ''

This Time with Alan Partridge ''This Time with Alan Partridge'' is a British sitcom first broadcast in 2019 on BBC One. It stars Steve Coogan as the inept broadcaster Alan Partridge in a spoof of current affairs programmes such as ''The One Show'' and '' Good Morning Britai ...

'' and the 2013 film '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa''. They were nominated as best comedy writers in the

2017 British Academy Television Craft Awards The 18th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on 23 April 2017. For the fifth consecutive year, Stephen Mangan was the ceremony's host. The awards were held at The ...

for ''Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle''. They also cowrote ''

Bedsitcom ''Bedsitcom'' is a British Reality television#Hoaxes, reality television hoax series that was broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2003. Pitched as "somewhere between a sitcom and a reality TV show", the show documented the lives of six young peo ...

'' and an episode of the fourth season of the HBO comedy series ''

Veep ''Veep'' is an American political satire comedy television series that aired on HBO from April 22, 2012, to May 12, 2019. The series was created by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of his sitcom ''The Thick of It''. The protagonist of ''Veep ...

''. The 2022 sitcom '' The Witchfinder'' was written by the Gibbons brothers.

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* * Living people British male television writers People from the Borough of Cheshire East Screenwriting duos English twins English television writers English male screenwriters Writers from Cheshire People from Sandbach Year of birth missing (living people) {{Screen-writer-stub