Fay Rusling
Fay Rusling is a British comedy writer and performer, most known for her work in the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing. She has had a working partnership with fellow writer Oriane Messina since 1999.
Works
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 Date2004-09-03
Charactersd Nurse
Episode Count3
Vote Count105
Stupid!
King Stupid and Butler Goober control a machine causing mischief worldwide, like kids poking with "Devil Fingers" and a divorced man camping at his ex-wife's home.
Release Date2004-12-06
Charactersd Various Characters
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
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 Date2006-12-28
Charactersd Self
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 Date2011-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count299
My Parents Are Aliens
Young orphans, Mel, Josh and Lucy, can't believe their luck when they are fostered together under one roof. But just when it looks like they have the chance of a relatively normal life, they discover their new parents are aliens from planet Valux!
Release Date1999-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
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 Date2020-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count96
Smack the Pony
The stylish, original and uninhibited Emmy award-winning sketch show starring Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. Distinctly contemporary. Decidedly maverick.
Release Date1999-03-19
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Writing
Episode Count7
Vote Count20
Comedy Showcase
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse. The format was replaced in 2012 by 4Funnies.
Release Date2007-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Back
Estranged foster-brothers Stephen and Andrew vie to take over the family business following the death of their father.
Release Date2017-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count43
Piglets
Piglets follows a group of six very different recruits at a fictional police training college and the staff charged with training them.
Release Date2024-07-20
DepartmentCrew
JobSeries Writer
Episode Count6
Vote Count15
Campus
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Gary Parker, Victoria Pile, Richard Preddy, Fay Rusling, and Christian Sandino-Taylor, with Pile acting as co-writer, producer, and director. At the fictitious Kirke University, the lives of the staff are explored, particularly the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer, and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat. The series was initially broadcast as a pilot on Channel 4 on 6 November 2009, part of the Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. A full series commenced on 5 April 2011, with the first episode being a reshot and expanded pilot. Many critics claimed it was too similar to Green Wing and that much of the humour was offensive. However, others praised the dark humour and surrealism. It was ultimately cancelled after one series due to poor ratings.
Release Date2011-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count14
Me and Mrs Jones
The life of Mrs Gemma Jones becomes increasingly complicated as she balances love, affection, sex and motherhood between an ex-husband, an adult son, two young daughters, and two male admirers with a 20-year age gap between them.
Release Date2012-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count8
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 Date2016-07-04
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count26