Timeshift
Timeshift: Gagging For It - TV's Hunger For Radio Comedy
- TV documentary
- BBC Four
- 2007
- 1 episode
Documentary examining how television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Features Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Jon Culshaw, Dick Fiddy, Barry Cryer and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2007
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Episodes
- 1
- Features
- Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Jon Culshaw, Dick Fiddy, Barry Cryer, Marcus Brigstocke, Stephen Armstrong, Dick Mills and more
- Producers
- John Das, Lucie Donahue and Michael Poole
- Company
Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Radio hits from Hancock's Half Hour to Little Britain have become TV classics. But other long-running radio favourites have died a death on the screen. So what makes for a sure-fire transfer? Time Shift investigates, with the help of favourite clips from the archive and insights offered by Jon Culshaw, Clive Anderson, Barry Cryer, Marcus Brigstocke, and Mitchell & Webb.
Featured programmes:
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
This is an episode from the long-running BBC Four documentary series Timeshift. It is Series 7, Episode 18.
Additional details
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 1st October 2007 at 10pm on BBC Four
- Episode length
- 1 hour
- Most recent repeats
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- Tuesday 14th December 2021 at 10:55pm on BBC4
- Sunday 7th June 2020 at 12:00am on BBC4
- Monday 22nd September 2008 at 10:50pm on BBC4