Sam Bain
- 52 years old
- British
- Writer and executive producer
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E4 orders half-animated computer game comedy from Fresh Meat team
Dead Pixels, a half-live action, half-animated comedy from the Fresh Meat producers, is coming to E4 next year. It focuses on friends obsessed with a computer game.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd August 2017Review, Ill Behaviour, iPlayer
Ill Behaviour is written by Peep Show's co-creator Sam Bain, but if anyone is expecting a laugh-a-minute sitcom about flatsharing misfits think again. Ill Behaviour is far more ambitious and original than that. Not as funny as Peep Show, but then I don't think that is its intention.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th July 2017Ill Behaviour, review
The chuckles are broad but the grisly nihilism is rather unpalatable.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 22nd July 2017Why Peep Show's Sam Bain made cancer-com Ill Behaviour
The comedy writer describes the awkward Britishness and radical thinking that informed his new series, in which a man with Hodgkin's lymphoma is locked in a cellar by his best friends.
Sam Bain, The Guardian, 21st July 2017Ill Behaviour review
Countless series have used the disease as an exploitative shortcut to sadness but it is encoded into every scene of this new funny and relentlessly immoral thriller.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 20th July 2017Opinion: comedies that were pulled earlier than planned
If Host The Week has been axed by Channel 4 after one episode, as has been reported, it joins a very select band of television comedies that were pulled earlier than planned.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th June 2017Avatards close to being commissioned
Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's new production company are close to securing their first production deal. Their company, which is now called Various Artists, is close to signing a six-part deal for their pilot of a gamer comedy called Avatards written by Jon Brown.
Radio Times, 1st May 2017Details revealed about new BBC comedy Ill Behaviour
Details have been revealed about Ill Behaviour, the new comedy drama by Sam Bain about a man with cancer.
British Comedy Guide, 16th February 2017New company for Bain, Armstrong & Clarke
Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong are teaming up with Channel 4 Head of Comedy Phil Clarke to launch their own production company.
British Comedy Guide, 10th February 2017Top 40 TV Shows of 2016: #29 Fresh Meat
As usual, these six episodes were wince-inducingly familiar for anyone who's every sat through a terrible job interview, thrown a half-arsed party or embarked on an ill-advised relationship, touched with moments of real pathos as the gang said one final farewell to their student home.
Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 25th December 2016