Laura Riseam

  • Producer and executive

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Rosie Jones lands Disability Benefits with Channel 4, her first sitcom

Rosie Jones is writing and stars in her first sitcom, the six-part, Breaking Bad-esque comedy Disability Benefits for Channel 4. The commission follows a successful "blap" pilot last year.

British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023

Everyone Else Burns Series 2 detail confirmed

Channel 4 has confirmed detail of the second series of Everyone Else Burns.

British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2023

Parenting sitcom Hullraisers to return

Parenting comedy Hullraisers, following a group of female friends and mothers in the northern city, has been recommissioned by Channel 4.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2022

Charlie Perkins appointed Head Of Comedy at Channel 4

Channel 4 has appointed Charlie Perkins as its new Head of Comedy.

British Comedy Guide, 27th June 2022

Simon Bird stars in apocalyptic Channel 4 sitcom Everyone Else Burns

Simon Bird stars in apocalyptic Channel 4 sitcom Everyone Else Burns with an ensemble cast of familiar comedy names.

British Comedy Guide, 3rd May 2022

Bridget Christie lands Channel 4 menopause comedy The Change

Bridget Christie is making The Change, a Channel 4 comedy drama about the menopause described as "Shirley Valentine meets Deliverance. With pigs."

British Comedy Guide, 14th March 2022

Big Boys - a sitcom by Jack Rooke - to be filmed for Channel 4

Channel 4 has ordered Big Boys, a semi-autobiographical sitcom by comedian Jack Rooke about an unlikely friendship between two young men who meet at university.

British Comedy Guide, 26th November 2020

Comedy shorts on the rise

BBC takes leaf out of C4's Blaps book with Threesomes, as short-form receives cash injection.

Broadcast, 12th June 2019

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