One of the most popular sitcoms of the 1970s, Man About The House was hugely successful and has a significant impact to this day - on both sides of the Atlantic.
We visit Sharon Horgan's little-known first sitcom creation, café ensemble Angelo's, which made it to screen in 2007 after four years in development hell.
One of the most dark and anarchic satires ever broadcast on British television marks its 40th anniversary this year, and the events in Whoops Apocalypse feel almost as pertinent as ever. Find out more about this acclaimed comedy serial from David Renwick and Andrew Marshall.
Tony Hancock, with his deadpan, hang-dog expression, is rarely a comedian associated with the word 'surreal'. Yet surreal he was, and his earliest television series - sketch show The Tony Hancock Show - has recently been released on DVD, proving testament to exactly that fact.
PG Wodehouse's beloved characters have been brought to screen in various guises since they first debuted in book form in the early 1930s, but perhaps the definitive adaptations of his Jeeves and Wooster stories came in the early 1990s, featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in an acclaimed ITV series.
The late great Caroline Aherne may ultimately have regretted Mrs Merton & Malcolm as a spin-off to her wildly successful talk show. The programme may have come out a little darker and more offbeat than the team's original intent, but that certainly didn't mean it wasn't a great piece of comedy, bleak or otherwise.
Just what made Channel 4 comedy Nightingales, about a trio of security guards working an office block's graveyard shift, a fondly-remembered cult hit? Dark surrealism by the bucket-load, more than twenty years before many other comedies followed suit.
