Little Britain
| Little Britain | |
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| Genre | Sketch comedy |
| Created by |
David Walliams Matt Lucas |
| Starring | David Walliams Matt Lucas |
| Narrated by | Tom Baker |
| Composer(s) | David Arnold |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 36 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 |
| Production company(s) | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Radio 4 (2000–02) BBC Three (2003–04) BBC One (2005–07) |
| Original release |
Radio series: 3 August 2000 – 5 February 2002 Television series: 9 February 2003 – 1 January 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Little Britain USA |
| Related shows |
Rock Profile Come Fly with Me (2010-2011) Little Britain USA |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Little Britain is a British character-based sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written and performed by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The show's title is an amalgamation of the terms 'Little England' and 'Great Britain', and is also the name of a Victorian neighbourhood and a modern street in London.
The show comprised sketches involving exaggerated parodies of British people from all walks of life in various situations familiar to the British people. These sketches were presented to the viewer together with narration in a manner which suggested that the programme is a guide—aimed at non-British people—to the ways of life of various classes of British society. Despite the narrator's description of great British institutions, the comedy is derived from the British audience's self-deprecating understanding of either themselves or people known to them. The phrase "Little Britain" also refers to an uninterested and parochial mindset often displayed by many of show's subjects. The show was also a huge ratings success, receiving 9.5 million viewers after moving to BBC One in 2005.
Little Britain initially appeared as a radio show on BBC Radio 4, produced by Edward Flinn and ran from 2000 until 2002.
Radio 4 began a rerun of all nine episodes in February 2004 (which were slightly edited for content to suit the 6:30pm timeslot). Unusually, this overlapped with a rerun on digital radio channel BBC 7 of the first five, which began in mid-March. In June–July 2004, BBC 7 broadcast the remaining four.
Ronnie Corbett commented that the characters as portrayed in the radio series were "well drawn-out".
Like several other BBC comedy shows (such as Dead Ringers and The Mighty Boosh), Little Britain made the transition from radio to television. All the episodes for the series were filmed at Pinewood Studios. Much of the TV material was adapted from the radio version, but with more emphasis on recurring characters and catchphrases.
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