British Comedy Guide

Soapington Way

  • TV sitcom that was never made
  • ITV1
  • 2008
  • 1 pilot

Unbroadcast sitcom pilot from Harry Hill parodying soaps.

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Press clippings

ITV to air Harry Hill soap spoof

Hill will play a pub landlord called Arthur Buttons in the new show, and has made a pilot co-starring Liza Tarbuck (as his mum), Mark Benton and Kate Robbins. It has now been commissioned for a series.

John Plunkett, The Guardian, 21st April 2008

Harry Hill to pen spoof soap for ITV1

Comedian Harry Hill is to write an ITV1 pilot for a spoof soap featuring Darren Day as a love-rat landlord and Just Good Friends star Jan Francis as his mum.

Jason Deans, The Guardian, 21st July 2005

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