British Comedy Guide

Splitting Cells

  • TV sketch show
  • BBC Three
  • 2007
  • 1 pilot

Sketch show set in a high-security mixed-sex prison. Stars Ninia Benjamin, Arnab Chanda, Wil Hodgson, Alyssa Kyria, Andrew Lawrence and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
2007
Channel
BBC Three
Episodes
1 Pilot
Creator
Gary Reich
Stars
Ninia Benjamin, Arnab Chanda, Wil Hodgson, Alyssa Kyria, Andrew Lawrence, Olivia Lee, Paul Bird, Shazia Mirza and more
Directors
Gary Reich and Richard Yee
Producers
Gary Reich, Simon Wilson and Piers Read
Company

Narrative-driven sketch show set in a high-security mixed-sex prison in the year 2012, where a motley assortment of inmates are serving time for anything from mass murder to robot rape. And there's a talent show.

The acts are all new talent paired up in new double acts and sketch group formations. They play the prison warden and the inmates - a motley assortment of miscreants and degenerates serving time for everything from mass murder, terrorist offences, and robot rape to being overweight. The sketches take place in the cells and warden's office and culminate in the prison talent show featuring all the inmates.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 20th September 2007 at 11:30pm on BBC Three
Episode length
30 minutes

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