Season 6 • Episode 8
LatestComedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's comedy television programmes, showing how they tied in with the production of other comedy shows. The show featured interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as footage from the series. Comedy Connections mostly documented BBC comedies and sitcoms, although two programmes have been from ITV and two from Channel 4. The first series consisted of six episodes, however the rest of the series consist of eight episodes each, the first two series were narrated by Julia Sawalha, however the rest of the series were narrated by Doon Mackichan.
Production
Rare archival BBC footage and behind-the-scenes chaos.
Writing
Writers finally getting credit they deserved decades later.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series originally planned to cover non-BBC comedies more extensively, but licensing battles killed most of those episodes — which is why only four non-BBC shows ever made the cut.
Comedy Connections essentially invented the 'behind-the-sitcom' documentary format that Netflix now churns out monthly. The BBC did it first, and arguably better, with actual historians instead of celebrity friends.
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