British Comedy Guide
Robert Popper
Robert Popper

Robert Popper

  • 57 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, producer and script editor

Press clippings

Peter Serafinowicz teases more Look Around You as he joins Amandaland

Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper have discussed reviving their breakout television series, Look Around You, Serafinowicz has revealed, as he joins the cast of the BBC's Motherland spin-off, Amandaland.

British Comedy Guide, 13th November 2024

BBC Comedy Festival 2024 sessions now available to book

The BBC Comedy Festival 2024 will be in Glasgow on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May, with speakers set to include Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders and Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith. Free tickets to the sessions can be booked now.

British Comedy Guide, 8th April 2024

Forgotten Friday Night Dinner script released as fans praise 'glorious' scene that was never filmed

Writer Robert Popper has also taken to X to share a forgotten scene from the show, which fans are loving.

Tom Earnshaw, Lad Bible, 6th February 2024

Channel 4 drops I Hate You

Channel 4 has dropped its new sitcom I Hate You after just one series.

British Comedy Guide, 27th February 2023

Robert Popper on I Hate You

'You can't really be a writer if you can't write female characters'.

Gabriel Tate, i Newspaper, 13th October 2022

I Hate You review

Like watching two grown women possessed by the spirit of puerile teenage boys.

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 13th October 2022

Robert Popper interview

Friday Night Dinner was famously based on the writer's own family. So who was the inspiration for the bickering best mates of his new show I Hate You?

Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 30th September 2022

Friday Night Dinner to be re-made by Amazon as Dinner With The Parents

Amazon Freevee has ordered a 10 episode series of Dinner With The Parents, a remake of Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.

British Comedy Guide, 14th July 2022

Friday Night Dinner's Robert Popper creates I Hate You

Robert Popper, the creator of Friday Night Dinner, has written a new sitcom for Channel 4 called I Hate You.

British Comedy Guide, 25th August 2021

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