Gavin Smith
- Producer, executive and executive producer
Press clippings
BBC Scotland to air Euro football comedy specials
To tie in with this summer's European football tournament, BBC Scotland is to air The All Star Euros Sketch Show, a Breaking The News special and an entertainment series hosted by Martin Compston and Gordon Smart.
British Comedy Guide, 24th May 2024Gregor Fisher & Greg McHugh to star in BBC One sitcom Only Child
Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh are reuniting to play father and son in a new BBC One sitcom, Only Child, in which McHugh is a budding author, returning to his family home in North-East Scotland to look after his recently widowed, ageing and wilful dad, (Fisher), as he slips into ever more eccentric and erratic behaviour.
British Comedy Guide, 5th February 2024BBC Scotland announces £500k development fund for new series
BBC Scotland is on the search for its next returning series following its huge success with the multi-award winning comedy drama series Guilt and its other scripted titles including comedies The Scotts and Scot Squad.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd June 2023Ashley Storrie's autism comedy drama Dinosaur picked up for BBC series
Dinosaur, the BBC comedy drama starring Ashley Storrie as an autistic woman negotiating the world has been picked up for a series. Written by Matilda Curtis, it focuses on Nina's life being turned upside down when her sister Evie gets engaged after just six weeks' dating.
British Comedy Guide, 24th April 2023Short Com TV Sitcom Writing Competition 2023 opens 9th March
Entry opens for the 2023 Short Com TV Sitcom Writing Competition on 9th March, with the deadline to submit being 7th July.
British Comedy Guide, 27th February 2023BBC Radio Scotland orders satirical sketch show Noising Up
BBC Radio Scotland has ordered satirical sketch show Noising Up, starring stand-up Stephen Buchanan and Scot Squad's Karen Bartke and Manjot Sumal, with an open submission policy for aspirant writers.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd August 2022BBC Scotland orders more The Farm and three more comedies
The BBC has ordered another 30 minute episode of The Farm for BBC One Scotland, plus another instalment of sketch show Stevens & McCarthy, and two new sitcoms, The Islelanders and Stunners, for iPlayer.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd June 2022BBC Scotland unveils female-led comedies
Janey Godley, Ashley Storrie and Karen Dunbar are among the stars of a raft of female-led comedies commissioned by BBC Scotland. Commissions include Dregs, Stevens & McCarthy, Who Runs The World? and Two For One.
British Comedy Guide, 26th May 2021Coma sitcom pilot Beep to air on the BBC this March
The BBC is piloting Beep, a tragi-comic sitcom about the family of a man in a long-term coma.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd March 2021BBC Scotland sketch show 'Only An Excuse?' to end after 27 years
Only An Excuse?, the sketch show which has formed part of BBC One Scotland's festive schedule since the 1990s, is to end this December.
British Comedy Guide, 10th November 2020