Oriane Messina

Oriane Messina is one half of comedy double act Messina and Rusling, Oriane has written on a wide variety of TV and radio shows including the Bafta award-winning Green Wing and Emmy award-winning Smack the Pony. She has also written and performed in three series of Radio 4's Bearded Ladies and will be heard next on Meanwhile With The Bearded Ladies, a sitcom staring Mark Addy with a special appearance by Ronnie Corbett. She has also appeared in Ruddy Hell it's Harry and Paul, Pulling and Doc Martin

Works

Piglets
6.6

Piglets

Piglets follows a group of six very different recruits at a fictional police training college and the staff charged with training them.

Release Date:2024-07-20

Department:Crew

Job:Series Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:9

Breeders
7.0

Breeders

Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.

Release Date:2020-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:84

Back
7.3

Back

Estranged foster-brothers Stephen and Andrew vie to take over the family business following the death of their father.

Release Date:2017-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:41

Brief Encounters
6.7

Brief Encounters

In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.

Release Date:2016-07-04

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:26

Me and Mrs Jones
6.1

Me and Mrs Jones

Gemma Jones balances her love life and motherhood.

Release Date:2012-10-12

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:7

Cuckoo
6.7

Cuckoo

Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.

Release Date:2012-09-25

Character:Gemma

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:73

Death in Paradise
7.5

Death in Paradise

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

Release Date:2011-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:262

Spy
7.7

Spy

When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.

Release Date:2011-10-14

Character:Leslie

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:38

The Wrong Door
5.0

The Wrong Door

The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the sketches have a CGI element. As such, it was produced under the working title of The CGI Sketch Show. The show also contains strong language, adult humour and toilet humour.

Release Date:2008-08-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3

The Inbetweeners
7.7

The Inbetweeners

Those who remember the awkward years of adolescence can relive those painful days in this British comedy series, where the cringe-inducing humor arises from the ill-fated antics of its four protagonists. Suburban teenage friends Will, Simon, Jay and Neil, students at Rudge Park Comprehensive, attempt to navigate the social scene, attract members of the gentler sex, and saunter among the cool crowd. However, despite their best efforts, the four hapless lads usually end up on the side of the nerds.

Release Date:2008-05-01

Character:Examiner

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:442

Sense and Sensibility
7.6

Sense and Sensibility

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?

Release Date:2008-01-01

Character:Maid at Cleveland

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:108

Is Benny Hill Still Funny?

A documentary looking at the life of Benny Hill and with the use of an audience reaction test finding out if he is still funny to contemporary audiences.

Release Date:2006-12-28

Character:Self

Not Going Out
7.4

Not Going Out

Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.

Release Date:2006-10-06

Character:Nurse

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:69

Green Wing
8.0

Green Wing

Follow new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - dishevelled and under-deodorised! Along the way she meets an assortment of bizarre and demented characters. Be prepared for one of the most surreal journeys you're ever likely to take as you dive into the anarchic world of Green Wing Hospital!

Release Date:2004-09-03

Character:Lodger

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:96

My Hero
6.4

My Hero

My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.

Release Date:2000-02-04

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:29

6.9

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Release Date:1996-01-20

Vote Count:226

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