Green Wing
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2004 - 2007
- 18 episodes (2 series)
Comedy about the childish and slightly mad staff working in a hospital. Stars Tamsin Greig, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Stephen Mangan, Mark Heap, Pippa Haywood and more.
Streaming rank this week: 574
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16 times Green Wing was one of the funniest shows ever
From the surreal quirks of Sue White to the stammering awkwardness of Dr Alan Statham, we've rounded up some of the best bits below...
Sam Haysom, Mashable, 14th April 2017The 12 best worst poets on TV
Including Baldrick, Guy Secretan and the Vogons.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 6th October 2016Mrs Brown's Boys named best sitcom since 2000
Mrs Brown's Boys has come top of the Radio Times poll to name the best British TV sitcom broadcast since the year 2000.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2016Radio Times launches a poll to name the best sitcom since 2000
Radio Times has launched a poll to name the best British TV sitcom broadcast since the year 2000. There are 40 shows in the shortlist.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2016Why studio laughter has no place in modern sitcoms
From Friends to Father Ted, some of the greatest sitcoms of all time have had laughter included on the soundtrack. But audiences have grown more sophisticated - and TV needs to follow their lead.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 29th June 2016Green Wing reunion for the junior doctors strike
The cast of the Channel 4 comedy Green Wing have reunited after 10 years on the picket line of the junior doctors strike.
Metro, 6th April 2016Looking back at Green Wing
Back in 2004, Channel 4 found themselves without many of their Friday night audience magnets. Friends and Frasier both finished that year and Graham Norton had recently jumped ship to the States, taking his show format with him. Thankfully two years prior Channel 4 had commissioned a sitcom about the lives of hospital staff, and by 2004 a full series was ready to be unleashed on Friday night prime time.
Rachel Meaden, Den Of Geek, 19th May 2015You can still revisit every episode of the innovative, critically acclaimed sitcom following the often surreal lives of the staff at the East Hampton Hospital. Stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt have achieved much since.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 20th March 2015Tamsin Greig jokes about idea of a Green Wing musical
Tamsin Greig has joked that Green Wing would make a good musical.
Frances Taylor and Jamie Harris, Digital Spy, 13th January 2015You should know about ... Green Wing
Possibly one of the funniest, and craziest, British sitcoms ever to be produced is Green Wing - a soap opera set in a hospital featuring doctors and human resources staff.
Jake Basford, So So Gay, 29th April 2013