Landmark Sitcom Season
A season of programming from the BBC to celebrate British sitcoms. The strand includes new pilots and remakes of a number of notable sitcom formats. The Landmark Sitcom Season begins on Sunday 28th August 2016.
Interview with BBC commissioner Shane Allen
Trailer
Shows
Goodnight Sweetheart
Whilst walking around the East End, TV repairman Gary Sparrow is transported back to 1940 where he begins to live a second life.
Are You Being Served?
Revival of the sitcom classic set in a department store.
Home From Home
Sitcom about a couple achieving their dream of buying a Lake District holiday home.
Motherland
Comedy about middle-class parenthood and juggling kids, school, and other parents.
We Love Sitcom
Panel-quiz show about sitcoms, tied in to the BBC Landmark Sitcom Season.
British Sitcom: 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves
Documentary celebrating the history of British television sitcom.
Lost Sitcoms
Series recreating episodes from legendary comedy series that are now missing believed wiped.
Porridge
Reinvention of the classic Ronnie Barker sitcom Porridge. Fletch's grandson, Fletch, is imprisoned for cyber crimes.
Young Hyacinth
Keeping Up Appearances prequel set in the 1950s.
Jimmy Carr & The Science Of Laughter: A Horizon Special
Jimmy Carr presents an Horizon documentary special on the subject of laughter.
Our Ex-Wife
Sitcom pilot starring Robert Webb as a divorcee.
We The Jury
Sitcom by James Acaster about a group of idiots appointed to be the jury on a murder trial.
The Coopers Vs The Rest
Sitcom pilot starring Tanya Franks and Paterson Joseph.
Jerk
Comedy starring Tim Renkow as a disabled man who is quite the jerk.
Fail
BBC Comedy Feeds pilot about a young couple living with the man's parents.
Limbo
BBC Comedy Feeds pilot about a group of tutors.
Man Like Mobeen
Sitcom starring Guz Khan as a man looking after his younger sister in Small Heath.
Pumped
Sitcom about three idiots living in an odd Scottish town.
JPD
Sketch show pilot for the BBC Comedy Feeds strand starring the Mandem On The Wall group.