Little Britain
- TV sketch show
- BBC Three / BBC One
- 2003 - 2016
- 23 episodes (3 series)
Matt Lucas and David Walliams take a comic look at British life in this character-based sketch series. Also features Anthony Head, Joann Condon, Charu Bala Chokshi, Leelo Ross, Ruth Jones and more.
Press clippings
Little Britain fans convinced hit BBC comedy is making shock comeback
Little Britain fans have been left convinced that the hit comedy programme could be about to make a grand comeback.
A raft of speculation has emerged after viewers of the programme became convinced that David Walliams, the show's co-creator, was dropping hints about the show's future.
Jake Penkethman, The Sun, 11th June 2024Matt Lucas shuts down Little Britain reboot rumours
"We're working on a different idea."
Iona Rowan, Digital Spy, 22nd December 2023Little Britain returns to terrestrial TV
Freeview TV channel That's TV will be airing Matt Lucas and David Walliams's original sketches over the Christmas period.
Chortle, 15th December 2023I loathe Little Britain, but it shouldn't be censored - let it fade away for being unfunny
Its relentless fat jokes and female grotesques were dated even when they were first broadcast.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 5th November 2023Praise be! The BBC's finally stood up for TV comedy's right to offend
The corporation knocks back Ofcom over Little Britain.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 2nd November 2023When did we change our minds about Little Britain?
Little Britain is 'explicitly racist and outdated'. That's the verdict of viewers asked by Ofcom to watch a 2003 sketch from the hit BBC show.
Gareth Roberts, The Spectator, 1st November 2023BBC warned to take action over Little Britain as Ofcom reveals viewers are horrified 'racist' sketches are on iPlayer
One particular scene caused utter outrage when it was screened again.
Joshua Rom, The Sun, 31st October 2023From 'masterpiece' to national shame: how the British fell in and out of love with Little Britain
Twenty years on, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's hilariously anti-PC class satire is deemed offensive and 'cruel'. But is it still funny?
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 19th September 2023"I'm appalled we let the blackface happen": Little Britain's messy legacy, 20 years on
Two decades after it moved to BBC Three, the commissioner and producer behind the sitcom explain how it struck comedy gold - and why it wouldn't get made today.
Tom Nicholson, i Newspaper, 16th September 202320 years later, Peep Show and Little Britain have aged very differently
Two comedy shows launched on the same evening back in 2003, but only one has emerged as a classic of the genre.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 14th September 2023