Ben Elton: The Great Railway Disaster airs Monday 26 June 2023 on Channel 4. What can we expect from this episode Trains are being cancelled or...
UK / Channel 4 – IBT / 1x60m-e / Thursday 1 September 1983 @ 10.30pm Executive Producer: David Tereshchuk / Director: John Longley Very typical early...
UK / BBC2 / 1x35m-e 25x30m-e / 1986-95 1 special and four seasons Writers: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie / Producer: Roger Ordish, Jon Plowman, Kevin Bishop...
Off the wall comedy programme about a group of students, The Young Ones was more than a showcase for the emerging ‘alternative’ comedy scene. The Young...
Back in the early 1980’s the alternative comedy scene was quite literally ready to explode into the mainstream and some of the leading lights had already...
Middle aged Health and Safety officer Gerald Wright finds that modern life is completely crazy and has trouble leaving his work at work. He lives with...
From the ashes of the legendary Saturday Live (which itself had sought influence from the American show Saturday Night Live) comes the possibly even more successful...
The Most Unkindest Cut Of All: Will (David Mitchell) has decided to write a play about the life of Julius Caesar. The only problem is how...
Ben Elton, multi-award winning comedian, novelist, playwright, film maker and classic sitcom creator of the likes of The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line and...
Sitcom. The distaff side to the Young Ones, Girls On Top is a superbly anarchic sitcom featuring the cream of alternative comedy talent of the early...