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 (1993)
Whilst walking around the East End, TV repairman Gary Sparrow is transported back to 1940 where he begins to live a second life.
Porridge (2016)
Reinvention of the classic Ronnie Barker sitcom Porridge. Fletch's grandson, Fletch, is imprisoned for cyber crimes.
Home From Home (2016)
Sitcom about a couple achieving their dream of buying a Lake District holiday home.
JPD (2016)
Sketch show pilot for the BBC Comedy Feeds strand starring the Mandem On The Wall group.
We The Jury (2016)
Sitcom by James Acaster about a group of idiots appointed to be the jury on a murder trial.
Motherland (2016)
Comedy about middle-class parenthood and juggling kids, school, and other parents.
Lost Sitcoms (2016)
Series recreating episodes from legendary comedy series that are now missing believed wiped.
Jimmy Carr & The Science Of Laughter: A Horizon Special (2016)
Jimmy Carr presents an Horizon documentary special on the subject of laughter.
British Sitcom: 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves (2016)
Documentary celebrating the history of British television sitcom.