Geoffrey Perkins
Production · 1953 – 2008
Geoffrey Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy writer, producer and performer. He served as Head of Comedy at BBC Television from 1995 to 2001, overseeing major series including The Royle Family, The Fast Show and Jonathan Creek. Perkins first gained prominence as a radio producer, most notably on BBC Radio 4’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where he helped shape the series’ sound and structure. He also helped revitalise I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue, introducing the long-running “Mornington Crescent” round. He co-created and starred in Radio Active with Angus Deayton, later adapted for television as KYTV. After working at Hat Trick Productions, he returned to the BBC before moving into independent production with Tiger Aspect, producing acclaimed shows including The Catherine Tate Show, Harry & Paul, Father Ted and Benidorm. Perkins was widely respected for his editorial judgment and influence on modern British comedy.
Series3
TV8.2ComedyA crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Father Ted
1995 · 359 votes
TV6.8ComedyOperation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict.
Operation Good Guys
1997 · 5 votes
TV6.0ComedyKYTV was a sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK. Each week, a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme. Inept links and amateurish presentation were very much the order of the day.
KYTV
1989 · 3 votes
Movies1
MovieDocumentaryA behind-the-scenes portrait of comedy writer Graham Linehan as he develops *The IT Crowd*, revealing the meticulous process behind his seemingly effortless humour. From scattered ideas and cork-board story cards to rewrites, rehearsals and production, the documentary offers an intimate look at how one of British and Irish television’s most distinctive sitcom writers turns fragments of inspiration into finished comedy.