Pete Sinclair
- Writer and producer
Press clippings
Comedies shortlisted for BBC Audio Awards 2020
Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, Mark Steel's In Town, Phil Ellis Is Trying, Phil Wang: Wangsplaining and Suggs: Love Letters To London are amongst the nominees in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 19th November 2019This sitcom, written by Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair, inexplicably limped to a second series. The set-up is that a couple (Dee and Kerry Godliman) have moved from the city to the country, where they find, among many other clichés trotted out in the various scenarios they face, that the grass isn't always greener. Joining the bad internet connection, weird neighbours and rude locals storylines of the first series were a leaking roof and moth infestation in the second. The lack of any discernible chemistry between the leads didn't help either, and Dee's lugubrious style meant Godliman had little to play off, so she upped her performance, but not in a good way. It's a shame, but it shows that sitcom (with two very good stand-ups as leads) can be less than the sum of its parts.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 27th December 2018Bad Move: a confusing waste of Jack Dee's talents
The problem - OK, one of the problems - with Bad Move (ITV), Dee's sitcom with Pete Sinclair, which began a second series last night, is that Dee's character Steve is not made unhappy enough.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 19th September 2018ITV confirms Bad Move Series 2 for the autumn
ITV has confirmed that the second series of Bad Move, the sitcom starring Jack Dee and Kerry Godliman, will air this autumn. Plot details have been revealed.
British Comedy Guide, 24th July 2018ITV orders Bad Move Series 2
ITV has ordered a second series of Bad Move, the sitcom starring Jack Dee and Kerry Godliman.
British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2017Why would you even bother with studio sitcom?
On a recent Sitcom Geeks podcast, Dave Cohen and I interviewed Pete Sinclair, who wrote Bad Move with Jack Dee for ITV having previously written Lead Balloon together. Both of those shows are single camera shows, but Pete's previous sitcoms were both studio shows (Mr Charity and All Along the Watchtower).
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 16th October 2017Bad Move, ITV1, preview
It's the holy grail of comedy. The mainstream family sitcom. So full marks to ITV1 - not a channel with a great track record in the genre lately - for having a crack. Whether they've totally succeeded is another matter though.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th September 2017Jack Dee & Kerry Godliman in Bad Move for ITV
Jack Dee and Kerry Godliman will play husband and wife in a new ITV sitcom called Bad Move.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2017How do you write jokes about a sad story?
It's Pete Sinclair that I feel sorry for. Among others of course. He is one of the writers of C4's Power Monkeys and as if it wasn't hard enough already to write a whole sitcom episode in a day, he now has to write funny jokes about a situation that I suspect he doesn't find very funny.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th June 2016Pete Sinclair interview
Pete Sinclair talks about working with Jack Dee to create Lead Balloon.
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 10th May 2014