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The Play What I Wrote. Image shows left to right: Dennis (Dennis Herdman), Thom (Thom Tuck)
The Play What I Wrote

The Play What I Wrote

  • TV comedy
  • BBC Four
  • 2022
  • 1 episode

A TV broadcast of the acclaimed comedy play, guest starring Tom Hiddleston. Also features Dennis Herdman, Thom Tuck, Mitesh Soni and Georgia Mann.

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The Play What I Wrote. Image shows left to right: Dennis (Dennis Herdman), Tom (Tom Hiddleston), Thom (Thom Tuck)

Key details

Genre
Comedy
Broadcast
2022
Channel
BBC Four
Episodes
1
Stars
Dennis Herdman, Thom Tuck, Tom Hiddleston, Mitesh Soni and Georgia Mann
Writers
Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben
Directors
Sean Foley and Maria Needle
Producers
Joshua Beaumont, Rachael Thomas, Chloe Naldrett, Leanne Tattum, Matt Taylor, Emma Cahusac, David Pugh and Alli Coyne
Companies

The sensationally funny homage to Morecambe and Wise.

Filmed live at Theatre Royal, Bath, this smash-hit production of The Play What I Wrote is a sensationally funny homage to Morecambe and Wise.

Directed by Birmingham Rep's artistic director, Sean Foley, co-written by Hamish McColl, Foley and, of course, Eddie Braben, this Olivier Award-winning comedy, originally directed by Kenneth Branagh, brings sunshine to the stage.

Thom has written a play, an epic set in the French Revolution, called A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple. Dennis, on the other hand, wants to continue with their double act. He believes that if they perform a tribute to Morecambe and Wise, Thom's comic confidence will be restored, and the double act will go on. But first, Dennis needs to persuade a guest star to appear in the play what Thom wrote.

Catch-up

Additional details

Production
Event
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 18th December 2022 at 8pm on BBC Four
Episode length
90 minutes

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