I just saw an advert for this. Just showed who's in it.
Big Top Page 2
Half past 7 on a Wednesday? Are they hoping this will be considered buried treasure, or something?
I think they're hoping it'll slip by unnoticed and they won't have to face making another series.
I've got high hopes for this. What with Danny Peak being such a talented writer and all. 
Just checked what other comedies Amanda has been in: Kiss Me Kate and Mad About Alice, which also featured Jamie Theakston IIRC.
Wow. Just read a savage review (by Radio Times standards) . . .
Quote: peter gazzard @ November 26 2009, 4:50 PM GMTJust checked what other comedies Amanda has been in: Kiss Me Kate and Mad About Alice, which also featured Jamie Theakston IIRC.
Indeed he was. A rather ... interesting series.
Although Jamie Theakston did try to get freebies out of prostitutes in a massage parlour. Which is quite funny.
Quote: john lucas 101 @ November 26 2009, 11:15 AM GMTHalf past 7 on a Wednesday? Are they hoping this will be considered buried treasure, or something?
When I was young this was a standard sitcom time slot.
When you were younger, they were played out on stage!
Dan
Quote: Chappers @ November 27 2009, 11:50 AM GMTWhen I was young this was a standard sitcom time slot.
Yeah. And me. 
The show is currently being reviewed on Front Row. It is not that good.
When I first read about this show, I imagined it to be a show with no studio audience/canned laughter because as it has a Circus/Big Top circus tent setting I thought the scale of the show would be too big to be filmed infront of a studio audience on sets. I saw the trailer for it today and was horrorfied to see that there IS studio audience/canned laughter, and it probably will be as bad as the RadioTimes said it was.
Quote: Chappers @ November 27 2009, 11:50 AM GMTWhen I was young this was a standard sitcom time slot.
True. I'm sure I remember Terry And June being shown at 7:30 a few times.
Lol....just came across this posting about big top.
Funny how the show is MY idea, yet I never heard a word about it!
A friend of mine who I used to work at Celador Productions with, just gave me a call, and said "Jeff, you know that circus pilot 'Big Top' you wrote and showed to the team at Celador a few years back?.... Well a six-show series is just about to start"
Imagine my surprise! 
Need to do some more investigation into this.... a bit of recognition for a pilot I wrote 4-5 years ago would be nice!
Interesting to see what the commissioned writer has done with it.... they've changed the names, and the ring-master is now a lady.....but it's definitely mine.
Guess I'll have to wait till monday to see the full list of credits, so I can trace back exactly where this was commissioned from.
Cheeky buggers!