Neil Gibbons

Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons are an English screenwriting duo from Sandbach in Cheshire. The twin brothers are best known for cowriting several Alan Partridge projects, including Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life, This Time with Alan Partridge and the 2013 film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. They were nominated as best comedy writers in the 2017 British Academy Television Craft Awards for Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle. They also cowrote Bedsitcom and an episode of the fourth season of the HBO comedy series Veep. The 2022 sitcom The Witchfinder was written by the Gibbons brothers.

Works

The Witchfinder
6.5

The Witchfinder

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.

Release Date2022-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd The Horse

Episode Count6

Vote Count18

8.2

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?

Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.

Release Date2017-12-27

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count5

Veep
7.5

Veep

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

Release Date2012-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count493

How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
6.9

How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)

The beloved and, to be fair, revered broadcaster returns to Britain after a year in Saudi Arabia to ask some important questions.

Release Date2025-10-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count5

This Time with Alan Partridge
7.8

This Time with Alan Partridge

Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?

Release Date2019-02-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count42

7.0

Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life

Alan Partridge attempts a celebrity travelogue around his beloved Norwich.

Release Date2012-06-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count16

4.2

Alan Partridge - Stratagem

Devised, written, choreographed, performed and funded by Alan Partridge, Stratagem sees Alan not just treading the boards but pounding them, atop stages graced by such luminaries as Michael Ball, Jack Whitehall and Welsh rockers the Stereophonics.

Release Date2023-01-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

7.1

Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle

Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads to the north to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a 'schasm' has formed between north and south, between the haves and have-nots.

Release Date2016-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count20

6.6

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

Release Date2013-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count478

5.8

Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce

Alan Partridge appears on Open Books with Martin Bryce to promote his new autobiography.

Release Date2012-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6