Blocked
Radio sitcom pilot co-written by Frankie Boyle. David Mitchell stars as the manager of a bad small theatre
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2014
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Starring
- David Mitchell, Lorna Watson, Poppy Rush, Chris Ramsey, Carolyn Pickles, David Cann and Joe Shavin
- Writers
- Frankie Boyle and Steven Dick
- Producer
- Jane Berthoud
A sitcom pilot by Frankie Boyle and Steven Dick described as a 'depraved farce'.
Blocked focuses on a despairing playwright-turned-small theatre owner and his family.
Felix and his wife Nettie together with their daughter and her boyfriend run a small theatre on the south coast. They all live for the day when Felix, once a successful writer, will manage to get over his bad behaviour and nihilistic despair and manage to write something good again.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 5th June 2014 on BBC Radio 4 at 11pm
- Episode length
- 30 minutes

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