Dead Ringers (comedy)
| Dead Ringers | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Bill Dare |
| Starring |
Jon Culshaw Jan Ravens Phil Cornwell (−2007) Kevin Connelly (−2007) Mark Perry (−2007) Duncan Wisbey (2014–) Lewis MacLeod (2014–) Debra Stephenson (2014–) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 42 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jon Plowman |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Radio 4 2000–2007, 2014– BBC Two 2002–2007 |
| Original release | 18 November 2002 – 29 March 2007 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry. The main writers for season 1–3 on Radio were Jon Holmes and Andy Hurst with Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain coming on board in Series 4. Other writers have included Simon Blackwell, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, John Finnemore, David Mitchell, Terry Newman, Jonathan Morris and Carl Carter. It was revealed by star Jan Ravens that the BBC quietly cancelled the television run in 2007 after five years of broadcast.
Dead Ringers' return to Radio 4 was announced on 8 July 2014.
The programme first aired in 2000. The cast of the first series was different from other instalments. Of the established team, only Culshaw and Ravens appeared, as did Kate Robbins, Simon Lipson and Alistair McGowan. Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain were the only writers to write on Dead Ringers from series 1 of the Radio show through all seven series of Dead Ringers TV on BBC2 where they were head writers.
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