Neil Forsyth
- Writer, producer and executive producer
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Neil Forsyth: 10 things that changed my life
Neil Forsyth, writer of Guilt and Bob Servant, on 10 things that changed his life.
The National (Scotland), 20th October 2019Filming set to start on BBC Scotland's Guilt
Filming starts next week (w/c 8th April) on new BBC Two and BBC Scotland comedy drama Guilt.
British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2019Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives to star in new comedy drama Guilt
Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives will star in a new BBC Scotland comedy drama series. Guilt, by Neil Forsyth, focuses on two men who commit a hit and run murder.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd January 2019Neil Forsyth on reimagining Live Aid
"I found that whole world out there in the 1970s fascinating."
The Sunday Post, 20th May 2018Backstage At Live Aid preview
Neil Forsyth says: "It's well versed that that there were tensions between Midge and Bob Geldof. And I had a lot of fun with that."
Brian Beacom, The Herald, 18th April 2018TV review: Urban Myths - Backstage At Live Aid
For the second short Urban Myths film in this run of reimagined famous events it is July 1985, we are backstage at Live Aid and, understandably, organiser Bob Geldof is in a bit of a tizzy. Nobody seems to want to go on, because they've twigged that the start of the show won't be broadcast live in America.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th April 2018We've seen this nasty treatment meted out to Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Tommy Cooper and many more -- and now, in a miserable distortion of the truth called Eric, Ernie And Me (BBC4), to Morecambe and Wise.
This hour-long drama was based on the life of Eddie Braben, who wrote much of the duo's material in the Seventies when they were at their peak. But according to this version, Eric & Ernie were nobodies before Braben arrived -- rotten material, no rapport, behaved like strangers on stage.
That's complete nonsense. They were a superstar double act, who had starred together in a series of films. Even the Beatles clamoured to be on their show.
Braben was a brilliant gag-writer, who took the boys to new heights. But it was wrong to claim he plucked the Andre Previn/'Andrew Preview' sketch out of the air: the raw version was penned in the Sixties by Eric & Ernie's former writers, Sid Green and Dick Hills.
The whole thing was a depressing business, obsessed with Braben's breakdowns and bouts of mental illness. Writer Neil Forsyth seemed to be reproaching us: see what agonies this poor man suffered to make us laugh.
Most scurrilous of all was the way it portrayed Eric as a manipulative, cowardly tyrant, who bullied everyone around him. That bears no relation to any description of the man that I've ever read.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 1st January 2018Eric, Ernie & Me, BBC4 review
It is good to see a writer getting some credit for a change. And deservedly so.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th December 2017Eric, Ernie And Me review
It's not Christmas without Morecambe and Wise, but even you think you've seen everything the duo have done, this latest BBC Four comedy biopic offers a new perspective on their enduring partnership, through the prism of the contribution Eddie Braben made to the act.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th December 2017Eddie Braben created the legend of Eric and Ernie
Neil Forsyth says "It was Eddie Braben who made them famous - and who paid the price."
Stephen Armstrong, Radio Times, 29th December 2017