Hat Trick Productions
Hat Trick Productions is one of the UK's most successful independent production companies. It was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath, Denise O'Donohue and Jimmy Mulville with an aim of making hit new comedy programmes.
Hat Trick's catalogue ranges from Game On to the topical Drop The Dead Donkey and Have I Got News For You, Father Ted, and the historical Chelmsford 123.
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Current productions
| Status | Medium | Production | Broadcaster | Genre | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In development | TV | Do Gooders | Sitcom | . | ||
| New | Radio |  |
Hypertension | Radio 4 | Sitcom | A new comedy for BBC Radio 4. |
| New | TV |  |
Kate And Kolo | ITV | Sitcom | Sitcom about the owner of a seaside café, and an asylum-seeking African doctor. |
| In development | TV |  |
Marvin Can't Fail | ITV2 | Sitcom | Sitcom pilot written by and starring Ryan Sampson about a bus tour guide. |
| In development | TV |  |
Stuck | Sky1 | Sitcom | Sitcom pilot by David O'Doherty set on a 1917 explorer ship. |
| Current | TV |  |
Have I Got News For You | BBC1 | Panel Show | Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. |
| Returning | Radio |  |
Austentatious | Radio 4 | Sketch Show | Comedy group Austentatious bring their Jane Austen-style improvisation show to Radio 4. |
| Returning | TV |  |
Derry Girls | C4 | Sitcom | A warm, funny and honest look at the lives of ordinary people living under the spectre of the Troubles, all seen through the eyes of a local teenager. |
| Returning | TV |  |
Hypothetical | Dave | Panel Show | Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster host a panel show testing two teams of comedians on their ability to deal with a series of ridiculous scenarios. |
Notable archive productions
| Medium | Production | Broadcaster | Genre | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radio |  |
Dave Podmore | Radio 4 | Sitcom | Mockumentary series following English cricket's most celebrated bits-and-pieces county cricketer. |
| TV |  |
Episodes | BBC2 | Sitcom | Anglo-American sitcom about a British couple who try to recreate their UK sitcom hit for American audiences with disastrous results. |
| TV |  |
Room 101 | BBC1 | Panel Show | Frank Skinner hosts Room 101, where celebrities compete in a series of themed rounds to get their most hated item banished forever. |
| TV |  |
Outnumbered | BBC1 | Sitcom | A semi-improvised sitcom based around a young family in London, starring Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner. |
| Radio |  |
Before They Were Famous | Radio 4 | Sketch Show | Spoof Radio 4 documentary which sheds light on the often surprising jobs done by the world's best known writers. |
| TV |  |
The Revolution Will Be Televised | BBC3 | Sketch Show | Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein take on celebrities, bankers, politicians and others in a satirical prank series. |
| TV |  |
Some Girls | BBC3 | Sitcom | Comedy about four 16-year-old female best-friends struggling through life, love, family and school. |
| TV |  |
The Armstrong & Miller Show | BBC1 | Sketch Show | Hit sketch show starring Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. Characters include a pair of immature RAF pilots and a rude musical hall duo. |
| TV |  |
Room 101 | BBC1 | Chat Show | What do you really dislike? In Room 101, celebrities have the chance to get rid of their personal hates forever. |
| Radio |  |
Trevor's World Of Sport | Radio 4 | Sitcom | Sitcom about sports agent Trevor Heslop and his struggle to cope with with work and family. Continuation of the TV series of the same name. |
| TV |  |
The Kumars At No. 42 | BBC1 | Chat Show | Comedy chat show set in the living room of host Sanjeev Kumar, surrounded by his quirky and typically British-Asian family. |
| TV |  |
The Worst Week Of My Life | BBC1 | Sitcom | A sitcom following Howard Steel, a man who manages to get into all kind of embarrasing scrapes. |
| TV |  |
Bedtime | BBC1 | Sitcom | Comedy series written by Andy Hamilton, set in various bedrooms during the last half hour of the day. |
| TV |  |
Drop The Dead Donkey | C4 | Sitcom | Sitcom set at GlobeLink News, a TV news station which is ordered to start taking a sensationalist stance to the news by its new owner. |
| TV |  |
Father Ted | C4 | Sitcom | Fathers Ted Crilly, Dougal McGuire and Jack Hackett are the inept priests of Craggy Island, banished from the mainland in various circumstances. |
| TV |  |
Game On | BBC2 | Sitcom | Flat-share sitcom about the lives of three twenty-somethings whose lives aren't getting any better. |
| TV |  |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | C4 | Panel Show | Popular 1990s improvisational comedy show presented by Clive Anderson. |
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Comedy title launches
| Year | Medium | Genre | Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Radio | Comedy | God's Work |
| 2019 | TV | Panel Show | Hypothetical |
| 2019 | TV | Sitcom | Warren |
| 2019 | Radio | Sitcom | We've Got A Pill For That |
| 2018 | TV | Sitcom | Derry Girls |
| 2018 | TV | Comedy | Football Genius |
| 2018 | Radio | Stand-Up | Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes |
| 2018 | Radio | Sitcom | The Taylors |
| 2017 | Radio | Sketch Show | Austentatious |
| 2017 | TV | Sitcom | Election Spy |
| 2017 | Radio | Sitcom | Lobby Land |
| 2017 | TV | Sketch Show | Revolting |
| 2017 | Radio | Stand-Up | Rob Newman's Neuropolis |
| 2017 | TV | Sitcom | Stuck |
| 2017 | TV | Panel Show | The Fake News Show |
| 2016 | TV | Sketch Show | Brexageddon?! |
| 2016 | Online | Sitcom | Limbo |
| 2016 | TV | Sitcom | Marvin Can't Fail |
| 2016 | TV | Sitcom | Power Monkeys |
| 2016 | Radio | Sketch Show | The World Of Simon Rich |
| 2015 | TV | Sitcom | Ballot Monkeys |
| 2015 | Radio | Stand-Up | Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia Of Evolution |
| 2015 | Radio | Sitcom | Sisters |
| 2015 | Radio | Sitcom | The King's Men |
| 2014 | TV | Sitcom | Boomers |
| 2014 | TV | Sketch Show | OtherwOrld |
| 2014 | Radio | Sitcom | Plum House |
| 2014 | TV | Chat Show | The Kumars |
| 2013 | TV | Comedy Drama | Eggbox |
| 2013 | TV | Sketch Show | Going Native |
| 2013 | TV | Comedy Drama | Great Night Out |
| 2013 | Radio | Stand-Up | Sabotage |
| 2013 | TV | Comedy Drama | Stage Door Johnnies |
| 2013 | TV | Sitcom | You, Me & Them |
| 2012 | Radio | Sketch Show | Before They Were Famous |
| 2012 | TV | Sitcom | Hacks |
| 2012 | TV | Sitcom | Just Around The Corner |
| 2012 | TV | Comedy Drama | Nixon's The One |
| 2012 | TV | Chat Show | Ronna & Beverly |
| 2012 | TV | Panel Show | Room 101 |
| 2012 | TV | Sitcom | Some Girls |
| 2012 | TV | Sketch Show | The Revolution Will Be Televised |
| 2012 | TV | Chat Show | Verry Terry |
| 2011 | TV | Sitcom | Episodes |
| 2011 | TV | Documentary | Father Ted: Unintelligent Design |
| 2011 | TV | Documentary | Small, Far Away - The World Of Father Ted |
| 2011 | TV | Sitcom | Spy |
| 2011 | Radio | Panel Show | The Back End Of Next Week |
| 2011 | TV | Sitcom | The Royal Bodyguard |
| 2010 | TV | Sketch Show | Facejacker |
| 2010 | TV | Comedy Drama | Going For Gold |
| 2010 | TV | Sketch Show | Happy Finish |
| 2010 | TV | Panel Show | The Bubble |
| 2009 | TV | Sitcom | Guantanamo Phil |
| 2009 | TV | Panel Show | It's Only A Theory |
| 2009 | TV | Sitcom | Kröd Mändoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire |
| 2009 | TV | Sitcom | Mark's Brilliant Blog |
| 2008 | TV | Comedy Drama | Mutual Friends |
| 2008 | Radio | Sketch Show | The Ladies |
| 2008 | TV | Sitcom | Torn Up Tales |
| 2007 | TV | Comedy | News Knight With Sir Trevor McDonald |
| 2007 | TV | Sitcom | Outnumbered |
| 2007 | TV | Sketch Show | The Armstrong & Miller Show |
| 2006 | TV | Sketch Show | Fonejacker |
| 2005 | TV | Sitcom | Bromwell High |
| 2004 | TV | Sitcom | The Worst Week Of My Life |
| 2003 | TV | Sitcom | Trevor's World Of Sport |
| 2001 | TV | Sitcom | Bedtime |
| 2001 | Radio | Sitcom | Dave Podmore |
| 2001 | TV | Chat Show | The Kumars At No. 42 |
| 1997 | TV | Comedy Drama | Mr White Goes To Westminster |
| 1996 | TV | Comedy Drama | Lord Of Misrule |
| 1995 | TV | Comedy Drama | A Very Open Prison |
| 1995 | TV | Sitcom | Father Ted |
| 1995 | TV | Sitcom | Game On |
| 1994 | TV | Chat Show | Room 101 |
| 1992 | TV | Sitcom | The Big One |
| 1990 | TV | Sitcom | Drop The Dead Donkey |
| 1990 | TV | Panel Show | Have I Got News For You |
| 1989 | TV | Sitcom | Norbert Smith - A Life |
| 1988 | TV | Sitcom | Chelmsford 123 |
| 1988 | TV | Sitcom | This Is David Lander |
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