Sid Abbott: Average family man?

It would not be unfair to describe the confused sitcom dad - bemused by his children and frustrated by his wife - as having become somewhat of a sitcom archetype. Such relationships, to varying extents, have been the foundation of many comedies over the years (perhaps most recently in BBC One's long-running My Family), including Network-issued titles such as Home To Roost and Father, Dear Father; but one sitcom honed in on this vein of comedy magic like no other: Bless This House.

Comedy at Home

Even without the unique circumstance of 2020, it's the time of year when we're all looking for something to cosy up with for a good laugh. With more time being spent home than normal, here's a selection of brilliant domestic sitcoms from the Network catalogue to entice your comedy taste buds this winter. Each is set primarily or solely in a home, so snuggle up warm with that glowing feeling that only a comedy escape can give.

Carla's decades of comedy

It's a little more than 30 years since Liverpool's most well-known comedy jewel first came to our screens.

It followed the working class Boswell family struggling through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s, painting a bleak yet concurrently warm and hopeful picture of life in one of Britain's major cities.