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As promised recently I made a Q and A video. Thank you for all your interesting questions, I’ve answered as many as I could.
It covers everything from how I started the channel, to what are the sitcoms everyone should see!
Thanks again for all your great questions.
On a dismally wet February morning in 1925, a 45 year old woman walked along the Thames Embankment, anxious about the meeting she was about to attend.
The nervous figure was Mabel Constanduros.
Despite what she thought at the time, Mabel, as we will discover, would become a pioneer of British sitcoms and soap opera – oh, yes – she pioneered soap opera in the UK too. She was incredibly important to the evolution of broadcasting, yet few remember her, or have even heard of her.
Lights, Camera, Transatlantic: The ITC Sitcom Story
From the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, ITC Entertainment (Incorporated Television Company), led by the formidable Lew Grade, pioneered lucrative American syndication alongside British broadcast. ITC became famous for its slick action-adventure series like ‘The Saint’ and ‘The Persuaders!’. They also had a fascinating foray into sitcom and light entertainment co-productions and distribution deals. Join me as we explore the rarely-discussed comedy side of this transatlantic empire, examining how these early British and American co-produced or co-distributed tv comedies attempted to find a common comedic language across the Atlantic.