Mr Charity
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 2001
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom focusing on international aid charity HELP and its less-than-charitable, egotistical managing director, Graham Templeton. Stars Stephen Tompkinson, Claudie Blakley, Joseph Kpobie, Dilys Laye, Deddie Davies and Fenella Woolgar
Press clippings
The other key to sitcom success
There will be sitcoms that fail for whatever reason. On the Sitcom Geeks podcast, we enjoy talking about them, partly because failure is funny. But also examining failure is often more informative than the successful show where success seems inevitable. (It wasn't).
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 27th April 2021Pete Sinclair interview
Our first mistake was the clash between a very dark subject matter (essentially satirising someone who was using charity for his own ends) and the old-fashioned traditional sitcom format.
James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 9th May 2014