Sitcoms – the defining shared televisual experiences of our youth and the fabric of our very lives!! Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Father Ted, I’m Alan Partridge, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld… Just some of my favourite TV shows EVER and all of them sitcoms. I’m …
Terry Alderton and Julia Sutherland on BBC Radio 4
With ‘Lach Chronicles Series 2’, and ‘The John Moloney Show’ already in production for BBC Radio 4, here at Dabster we’re very pleased and proud to announce two brand new commissions for the network. ‘Terry Alderton’s All Crazy Now’ presents us with a unique set of challenges as we attempt …
Women In Comedy: Just Not Funny Anymore.
DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this article is to draw your attention to the fact that The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected is on Radio Scotland on Wednesday this week (12th February 2014). It’s a comedy panel show that we made for the BBC that happens to have a lot of …
Pop Comedy
This may spoil your future enjoyment of the Man Booker Prize, quadruple Oscar winning story; Life of Pi. I wrote a joke this week that I thought was bang on and no-one gave a damn.
Get Better or Give Up
t was about three years ago when Julia Sutherland asked if I would introduce her on stage at Grape on George Street in Edinburgh. It was her first Fringe show and she needed a compere. I stupidly thought, how hard can it be? Get up there, talk for five minutes …
Abandoning All Modesty
t’s the post New Year retrospective on the pre New Year sweatbox that was December. 2012 has been filed under“ Work/Templates/MASTERCOPY” for Dabster. We’ve seen pet projects graduate into commissions, we’ve strengthened existing relationships into new markets, delivered programming to be proud of and set up 2013 in a strong position with …






