Trying to figure out the name of a show.. Page 2

Quote: yuppicide @ June 24 2012, 5:29 PM BST

What's up with a lot of British Sitcoms only having say 6 - 18 episodes? I saw a few shows that had 3 seasons, yet only 17 episodes.. yet American shows it's like 1 season and 11 episodes. Some shows going on to like 150 - 200 episodes.

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Not from either UK or US but from what I've seen I'd say the amount of writers has something to do with it. Seems to be a lot of UK shows, especially comedies are written by one or two people but there is usually a large team for US shows.

It's about the money really. Traditionally America's higher population allowed it more cash to film things bigger... until the 1980s almost all US sitcoms we're either ABC/CBS/NBC. Now we have smaller cable networks, with much tighter budgets, making 6-12 episode series written by a 1-3 people.

Back on topic... not at all sure. PBS has only aired so many Britcoms... but there's no place I know that has a good list of them or any airing history. Maybe if you wrote your local station a letter asking them (with a donation) they might help.

Was the series Game On? Neil Stuke replaced Ben Chaplin after series one so you'd have to check out both actors as both played the agrophobic who was often alone in the flat.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/game_on/