Television Shows
One Non Blonde (March 2010)
A new comdey travel show has been commissioned by the BBC.
Filming has just been completed on the 8-part series for BBC 3. Produced and directed by Gary Reich. Written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.
LaughterShock (BBC , January 2010)
BBC 3 have commissioned a transmittable pilot for our stand-up sketch show, Laughter Shock. It stars 12 of the best new multicultural acts in the country, all making their first television appearances.
Both the live show and sketches have been filmed, watch this space for the transmission date!
Produced and directed by Gary Reich
Eleanor's up and coming (October 2009)
Rich Fulcher will star as Eleanor in a series of short films for MTV2. To be broadcast from 10pm every night between videos.
How Not To Live Your Life Series 2. (October 2009)
For clips of Series 2, see BBC iPlayer
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Written By and Starring Dan Clark.
Directed by Martin Dennis
Produced by Gary Reich & Dan Clark
How Not To Live Your Life on BBC Comedy Extra (October 2009)
See How Not To Live Your Life's Dan Clark and David Armand in a series of new viral sketches currently being featured on the BBC Comedy Extra Website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/p003ym04
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Meet the Bandais (e4 , September 2009)
Produced for e4 and directed by Gary Reich. Meet the Bandais is a comedy show following the exploits of a fictional African family called the Bandais as they leave their small village for the first time to live with a couple of unsuspecting and real British families. The hosts have never left the UK, let alone hung out at home with a black family. What the host families don’t know is that the Bandais are actually a group of actors playing the role of a tribal family who’ve never seen electric appliances, cars or pet hamsters. It all sets the scene for the ultimate comedy clash of cultures.
Team Awesome (September 2009)
Get Ready for the Third Cuming!
After the success of Brown Eyed Boy’s new funny cut for E4 “Jesusboy and the Goatherd”. Channel 4 commissioned a full length pilot script for a sitcom based on it called Team Awesome written by and starring Jack Whitehall and Nathan A Thomas. Channel 4 have just comissioned the boys to write a 2nd script in September.
Flat Out (August 2009)
BBC Scotland have commissioned a script for a studio sitcom, written by Susan Calman, and set in a tenement block in the Merchant City of Glasgow.
Preggers (August 2009)
We have co-created a dark and twisted studio sitcom with Olivia Lee, set in a maternity ward, and commissioned her to write a pilot episode which is currently being put before various broadcasters
Laughtershock (August 2009)
Laughtershock
Take a seat in the eclectic chair
Laughtershock is the bastard daughter of an Extreme Variety Night and a Sketch Show. The 6 part series is being funded and produced by Brown Eyed Boy and will bring together all of the best unseen comedy talent from the UK and Beyond.
Laughtershock comprises live comedy performances, filmed at a live showcase, and pre-recorded sketches, which are premiered at the same showcase. Each episode features up to 10 brand-new writer performers contributing a sketch and a live performance. All episodes follow this core format but all have their own distinct theme and distinct showcase event which results in Sketch Show whose episodes are very different in tone and content. The Next Episode is being filmed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and showcased Live at the Wildman room in the Assembly on George Street – 11:30pm Friday 28th August.
Get Rich (MTV , February 2009)
The Cash or Cheque squad are on MTV.
You can watch all 7 episodes online at: www.myspace.com/cocsfam
Yes, Fam! The UK’s hottest Hip Hop / Grime franchise, the Cash Or Check Squad have filmed their rise to the top on their Mobile phone cameras as they hustle to get street recognition, Mix Tape sales and enough cash to fly to America.
Only they're actually played by the cult rappers Example and Doc Brown and the stand-up Marlon Davies - to produce the ultimate 'hidden camera' sketch show.
Produced and Directed by Gary Reich.
We are the Antidote! (January 2009)
‘We are The Antidote’ is an entirely new comedy format - an improvised sitcom about a drug addicted indie rock band who've been locked in a recording studio and forced to record their second album, cold Turkey.
You Tube Clips coming soon.
Created and produced by Gary Reich and Nick Berry
Directed by Gary Reich
Sex Lies And Mobile Phones (January 2009)
Brown Eyed Boy’s latest new talent sketch show. Sex Lies and Mobile Phones is a sketch show made up of all the embarrassing, confessional and intimate things people record on their mobile phone but never intended for anyone else to see.
Produced and Directed By Nick Berry
How Not to Live your Life series 1. (BBC 3 , August 2008)
* August 2008
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Written By and Starring Dan Clark.
Directed by Gary Reich & Dan Clark
Produced by Gary Reich & Dan Clark
Paramount School of Comedy (Paramount Comedy Channel , July 2008)
Produced and directed by Gary Reich and Emma Lawson. Paramount School of Comedy celebrates the anarchic early years of the Paramount Comedy Channel in the late 1990s, when many of the future stars of British comedy did their first ever television – unfettered, unabashed and slightly out of control. As one of the main comedy producers working there at the time, Gary has uncovered a lot of rare and previously unseen footage of Sacha Baron Cohen (doing ‘Bruno’); The Might Boosh; Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright; Leigh Francis; Matt Lucas and David Walliams; Armstrong and Miller and Dom Joly. It also includes some very revealing interviews with many of the stars of today.
Little Miss Jocelyn Series 2 (BBC 2 , February 2008)
Written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien, Little Miss Jocelyn returns for an Incredible second series. A 6 x 30 minute sketch show in which she plays around 40 different characters, including a fat, male Nigerian driving instructor. There will also be a number of big hidden camera stunts.
How Not to Live Your Life Pilot (BBC Three , September 2007)
Written and directed by Dan Clark and Gary Reich. The broadcast pilot of How Not To Live Your Life, which follows the life of Don, a British thirty-something everyman. He’s the typical neurotic single British male as he tries and fails to navigate the very basics of life. And like most men entering their thirties his biggest enemy is his overactive mind which plays out countless scenes of things he shouldn’t do or say. And we get to see them all.
Splitting Cells (BBC Three , September 2007)
Produced and directed by Gary Reich. A dark Sci-Fi sitcom ‘Splitting Cells’, set in a prison in a truly twisted London of 2012. Starring eight of the most talented and unusual freaks from the comedy circuit. Including amongst others Ninia Benjamin (3 non Blondes), If.Comedy award nominee 2007 Andrew Lawrence, Nick Mohammed & Alyssa Kyria. This show pushes the boundaries of the obscure and the obscene!
Little Miss Jocelyn Best of Series One (BBC 2 , August 2007)
The Best of Little Miss Jocelyn Series One was broadcast from Wednesday 1st August 2007.
Little Miss Jocelyn is a comedy sketch show series written by Jocelyn Jee Esien, who also plays all the main comedic characters.
The show aired on BBC Three in 2006 and one BAFTA nomination later - the best of the series was broadcast on BBC2.
The show is a mixture of sketches and hidden camera footage, and was broadcast each Wednesday in August.
Dan Clarks guide to Working (Paramount Comedy Channel , February 2007)
We have just completed a second set of 10 x 1 minute films for The Paramount Comedy Channel. Written and directed again by Gary Reich and Dan Clark and this time set in an office they have just begun transmission as interstitials on the Channel.
Dan Clark's Guide To Dating (Paramount Comedy Channel , August 2006)
10 x 1 minute films written and directed by Dan Clark and Gary Reich for The Paramount Comedy Channel. Currently being transmitted as interstitials across all Paramount channels and available on their web site at http://www.paramountcomedy.com/shortcuts/series.aspx?seriesID=9
Little Miss Jocelyn Series 1. (BBC 3 , August 2006)
Written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien, star of “3 non blondes” A 6 x 30 minute sketch show in which she plays around 40 different characters, including a fat, male Nigerian driving instructor. There will also be a number of big hidden camera event stunts.
Written and Performed by Joselyn Jee Esien
Director: Gareth Carravick
Producer: Jemma Rodgers
Director of Photography: Andy Hollis
Production Designer: Greg Shaw
Costume Designer: Sarah Lubel
Animal/Mineral (Paramount Comedy Channel , March 2006)
10 x 1 minute films written by and starring Nick Mohammed for The Paramount Comedy Channel in which he plays Daniel Thornthwaite, a natural receiver who can communicate with animals and inanimate objects through touching them.
5 Non Blondes (VH1 , June 2004)
A pilot shot for VH1 in the States. I spent 3 days auditioning 200 Black women, cast 5 then shot the entire thing on the streets of downtown L.A. The city's like a human Disneyland and I loved every single second of the 7 weeks I spent there. A series was not commissioned but I met some of the most talented performers and crew I've ever worked with.
VH1
Jun 2004
3 Non Blondes (BBC , June 2004)
A hidden camera sketch show starring 3 black female character comics that ran to two series and a Christmas special and really put us on the map. 19 episodes in 13 months; 3 of the most courageous actresses I've ever worked with and a crew who stood in shopping centres round the country, week in and week out for nearly a year. Nominated for a British Comedy Award, RTS award and an Emma award and sold to 22 countries. Watching it on Virgin Atlantic Upper Class, en route to pitch an American version to J-Lo's company in L.A. was about as weird and wonderful as LA LA Land could get.
Starring Jocelyn Jee Esien, Ninia Benjamin and Tameka Empson
19 x 30 minutes
JUN 2004
BBC
Noble and Silver: Get Off Me (Channel 4 , January 2003)
Comedy series presented by comedians Kim Noble and Stuart Silver in which they take a comic look at the world of television. Series produced by Gary Reich.
Old Gits (Channel 5)
A transmittable hidden camera sketch show pilot for Channel 5 and a co-production with World Of Wonder. Produced and directed by Gary Reich and starring 2 wonderful mad old bastards. Delivered in September 2006.
Killing Time (BBC 3)
A sitcom pilot for BBC 3. Set in a women's prison and starring 12 brand new female comics, including Lucy Montgomery (now star of "Titty Titty Boom Boom ") and Shelley Cooper, Britain's only transgendered comic.
Toju (BBC 3)
A sketch show pilot for BBC 3. Written and performed by Toju, the most exciting black male stand-up in the country. He is also a great impersonator and played everyone from Cilla Black to Frank Spencer and J-Lo to Elton John.
The Man Who Drank The Universe
A one-off documentary presented by BBC1’s Alistair Appleton following him on a journey to Brazil where he takes Ayahuasca, the world’s most powerful plant hallucinogen
Me, My Elf And I
A one-off documentary, shot at the Mindstates conference in Berkeley, interviewing world experts on consciousness on what their view of God and Reality is.
Wil Hodgson
2004’s brilliant Perrier Newcomer winner. Set and shot in his hometown of Chippenham, the astonishing punk, Care Bear loving comic’s world is brought to life in astonishing detail.
Paddy Muck
Written and performed by Jason Byrne and set and shot in and around his native Dublin. An anarchcic physical comedy in which all of the locals AND the American tourists speak so broadly they can never be understood. Mister Bean meets Father Ted.