British Comedy Guide

The House: notes on notes

The House logo. Credit: BCG

Micheál Jacob's long career as an executive producer and script editor encompasses a plethora of television and radio comedies, including Birds Of A Feather, Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, Goodnight Sweetheart, My Family, Eyes Down, Thieves Like Us, The Smoking Room, Not For Turning and Dead Canny. He is co-creator and producer of The House.

Doing script notes, as a producer or script editor, is always slightly delicate. No matter how well one knows the writer, there is always scope for upset. At one extreme, a writer once invited me outside so that he could punch...

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