Andrew Collins (II)

Recording diary: Day 6. Strange magic

Having recorded outside in the car park on Tuesday, and in a van in the car park yesterday, studio director Wilfredo had us all outside in the cloudless sunshine again this morning for some more exterior scenes.

Recording diary: Day 4. Discovery

It's weird to sit on this side of the glass. The actors know that we can hear every word they're saying when they're in there, but unless we press "talkback", they can't hear us. It's an unfair dynamic, but it spells out who's boss.

Recording diary: Day 3. On the third day

Day Three of Mr Blue Sky, and it's all slotting together. We had an easy morning, in that we recorded all of Harvey's monologues.

Recording diary: Day 2. Out the blue

Day Two of Mr Blue Sky Series 2. The palatial middle studio at Soundhouse on what is now an ominously deserted industrial estate in Shepherd's Bush is our place of work until the end of next week.

Recording diary: Day 1. It's a living thing

Today is Day One of Mr Blue Sky Series 2. It is a year to the day that we embarked upon the recording of Series 1.

Andrew Collins: Fresh Meat review

I haven't written about Fresh Meat, now five hour-long episodes into its first series of six on C4, but it is officially my favourite comedy of 2011.

Andrew Collins: Walking the red carpet

A visit to The Inbetweeners Movie "world premiere", a bag of Doritos and a can of Tango...

Andrew Collins blog

If you're read the names of the cast in the press release, you'll know we've been very lucky.

Collins and Herring air details of their breakup

Like a modern day media Kramer vs Kramer, former BBC 6 Music Saturday morning co-presenters Andrew Collins and Richard Herring have been airing a wee bit of dirty laundry about their breakup on their respective blogs.

Mr Blue Sky, a four-part comedy drama written by Andrew Collins, finished on Monday on a wistful note, with ever-optimistic Harvey - the Mr Blue Sky of the title - failing to reveal his aneurysm to his family. He didn't want to ruin the happy vibe. He'd got his rubbish job back, his daughter was marrying her boyfriend, Kill-R, and his son had joined the army. This was a lovely series that got better as it went along. And Harvey's snarky oncologist - his mantra: "It's bad news" - was a joy from the start.