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It comes aft Channel 4 axed the actor's drama bid past year
- Published: 9:32, 7 Feb 2025
- Updated: 9:32, 7 Feb 2025
THE aboriginal of Steve Coogan's deed TV bid has been revealed aft the histrion swerved a driving ban.
The histrion and comedian was hauled successful beforehand of a justice aft being caught speeding connected the M6 past year.
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But successful an effort to debar getting disqualified from driving, Steve penned a missive to the court, pleading to support his license.
According to the Evening Standard, the 59-year-old said successful the papers helium needed to beryllium capable thrust to movie a caller bid of The Trip.
The work quotes Steve telling Birmingham Magistrates Court: “I person a bid of important movie commitments scheduled for 2025, galore of which impact driving arsenic a cardinal constituent of the work."
He continued: “I americium owed to look successful a well-established TV bid called ‘The Trip’ (with Rob Brydon) which arsenic the rubric suggests requires maine to drive.
"This starts filming towards the extremity of June 2025 and if I were incapable to drive, the accumulation would apt beryllium incapable to proceed.”
The BBC drama bid archetypal launched successful 2010 connected BBC Two earlier moving to Sky and features pals Steve and Rob connected their travels abroad.
It sees them play exaggerated versions of themselves arsenic they question by car reviewing restaurants.
24 episodes person been produced truthful acold implicit 4 series, though The Trip to Greece successful 2020 was thought to beryllium the last instalment.
Both stars person publically expressed the tendency to movie a caller series, with locations successful Ireland, Wales and the US reportedly considered.
Steve Coogan dealt brutal stroke by Channel 4 arsenic drama bid dropped aft conscionable 1 season
Last twelvemonth Steve's Channel 4 comedy-drama Chilvary was axed aft conscionable 1 series.
However, a 2nd bid was said to beryllium successful the pipeline, though Steve and amusement prima Sarah Solemani were looking for a caller location for the show.
Best BBC comedies
A BBC brag called connected the manufacture to "save our sitcoms", but the corp has a past of fantastic shows.
We look backmost astatine immoderate of the champion to ever grace the screen.
Fawlty Towers (1975-1979) - Only 2 bid were made of the beloved institution. However, the taste interaction of the bid starring John Cleese and Connie Booth spans decades. It follows rude and intolerant Basil Fawlty (Cleese) arsenic helium attempts to amended the estimation of his hotel.
Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003) - The amusement was crowned by immoderate arsenic the champion British sitcom of each clip by a TV canvass successful 2004. Seven bid were broadcast connected BBC until 1991 with further sporadic Christmas specials airing until 2003. Sir David Jason starred arsenic ambitious marketplace trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter whilst Nicholas Lyndhurst played his younger half-brother Rodney. Set successful working-class Peckham in south-east London, it follows the highs and lows of the lives of the Trotters', successful peculiar their brazen attempts to get rich.
Blackadder (1983 - 1989) - Four bid were made of the iconic show, created by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. Each bid spans a antithetic humanities play arsenic anti-hero Edmund Blackadder (Atkinson) tries to amended himself successful each society. Accompanied by his dogsbody Baldrick (Tony Robinson), occupation ever ensues. A TV canvass successful 2004 recovered that Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of each time
Absolutely Fabulous (1992 - 2012) - Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley prima arsenic failing PR guru Edina 'Eddie' Monsoon and alcoholic fashionista Patsy Stone. The brace embark connected heavy-drinking sessions and maltreatment drugs successful a hopeless effort to enactment 'hip'. Eddie perpetually chases bizarre fads and fails to suffer value whilst her disappointed and neglected girl Saffy (Julia Sawalha) looks on.
Little Britain (2003 - 2006) - The premise is simple. A sketch amusement which features antithetic British radical from each walks of beingness that are engaged successful each sorts of comical scenarios. Starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the brace created iconic popular civilization characters. Viewers loved obnoxious assembly property teen Vicky Pollard, morbidly obese scrounger Bubbles Devere, slimming manager Marjorie Dawes, despondent bureau idiosyncratic Carol Beer, disgraced person Sir Norman Fry, of people the iconic Lou and Andy!
The Catherine Tate Show (2004-2015) - A sketch amusement starring the likes of Catherine Tate. She made iconic characters specified arsenic rowdy schoolgirl Lauren Cooper with her enactment 'Am I bovvered?'. Other characters featured Bernie the nurse, the aga saga woman, complaining mates Janice and Ray, and of people her infamous 'Nan', Joannie Taylor. The past quality herself spawned aggregate specials and adjacent a movie.
Gavin and Stacey (2007 - Present) The bid tells the communicative of Gavin (Matthew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page). The brace embarked connected an online and telephone romance for six months. But erstwhile they yet determine to beryllium unneurotic properly, their friends and household get successful the way. Ruth Jones and James Corden created the beloved show, which has been going for implicit a decade. The 2019 Christmas peculiar was the most-watched drama successful 17 years and the most-viewed non-sporting lawsuit successful a decade.
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