British Comedy Guide

Which sitcoms were written for the star?

Here we are knocking ourselves out to create sitcoms...but how many have been created and written for a particular lead actor? How many are commissioned this way rather than via the route of picking out scripts from the unsolicited pile?

Can you name the sitcoms that were created for a particular lead actor?

Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Frasier
Fawlty Towers
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
Porridge?
The New Statesman?
Father Ted?

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Maybe I'm not to sure.

Rosanne
Anything with Bill Cosby
The Drew Carey Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Becker

Extras

The "insert comedian" Show

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Father Ted - no. That came from ten pages given to Hat Trick (on the back of their sketch work, and 'Paris')

Most stuff where the star is a comic is devised by them for them.

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