Pippa Brown

  • Writer, producer and executive producer

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Siobhán McSweeney makes her directorial debut with BBC comedy Spud

Siobhán McSweeney is making her directorial debut with a new BBC comedy short, Spud, that the Derry Girls actor also writes and stars in.

British Comedy Guide, 17th February 2024

'Am I Being Unreasonable?' recommissioned for Series 3

Am I Being Unreasonable? has been recommissioned for a third series, before the second has even aired, co-creator and star Daisy May Cooper has revealed.

British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2024

Am I Being Unreasonable? gets second series

Am I Being Unreasonable?, the comedy thriller starring Daisy May Cooper, has been renewed for a second series by BBC One.

British Comedy Guide, 28th October 2022

Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli create BBC comedy thriller

Real-life best friends Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli have created and will star in a BBC comedy thriller series together. The show focuses on two friends who find their lives unravelling.

British Comedy Guide, 29th October 2021

The Other One to return for Series 2

Filming is underway on a second series of BBC One sitcom The Other One.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd July 2021

Diane Morgan to star in sitcom pilot Lethal

BBC Two sitcom pilot Lethal will star Diane Morgan as a woman from Bolton obsessed with America. When her visa application is denied, she decides to marry a prisoner on death row.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd December 2020

TV review: The Other One series 1 episode 1

How well you get on with The Other One will depend on your tolerance for cringe factor.

Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th June 2020

TV review: The Other One

Despite all the jokes about class, Marcus's disastrous 'dick pics' disaster and the essential betrayal at the heart of the Walcott's marriage, there's a real sweetness to the developing relationship between the two Catherines which makes this a joy to watch.

Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 12th June 2020

In September 2017, I wrote that The Other One was a BBC comedy pilot in search of a commission: it gained that commission and returned this week - albeit with the rerun pilot (boo), but over the next six weeks it will delight and enthral with high humour and low blows from writers Holly Walsh and Pippa Brown. The only true mystery is why the fandoodle it took so long.

It is a glorious slice-of-life comedy, way superior to so much else on these days. OK, the plot is a twitch forced - bigamist dies, leaving two disparate families, in two utterly disparate class zones - but the warmth of all within, the sharpness of the writing, the performances, particularly from Ellie White as the smiling uptight coil of a spring who can't quite leave a middle-class totem untouched and Lauren Socha as the unsprung spring who can't quite leave a working-class totem unsaid... in this will lie a certain dramatic magic.

Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 7th June 2020

TV preview: The Other One, BBC One

Whether by luck or judgement the BBC is on a roll at the moment with sitcoms featuring strong female casts.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd June 2020

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