It's not as though British writers aren't coming up ... The paper reports that in 1984 there were 60 newly commissioned studio sitcoms. By 2004 it was seven - and in 2023, none were commissioned ...

The BBC's director of comedy has called on the television industry to help "save our sitcoms". In a keynote industry speech at the BBC Comedy Festival last week, Jon Petrie challenged the sector ...

Freevee's "Dinner with the Parents" is the latest re-do which fails to justify its existence. American TV bosses obviously didn’t learn many lessons from “Episodes,” the Showtime/BBC co ...

A British ‘Cheers’ remake is currently in development (AP1988) Joking that the task of rebooting the iconic sitcom “might be insane,” Allen said it was a “huge honor” to be entrusted ...

That one’s quite tall, he’s got a weird haircut.” The Inbetweeners failed but it was not the first British sitcom to fail to cross the pond. Here are some other examples. It’s hard to ...