Sam Bain (born 3 August 1971) is a British comedy writer, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. He attended St Paul's School in London before graduating from the University of Manchester, where he met his writing partner Jesse Armstrong.
Tracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.
Release Date2002-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count28
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Release Date2019-03-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Consultant
Episode Count31
Vote Count845
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
Release Date2003-09-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count48
Vote Count393
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
Release Date2008-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count80
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
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
Release Date2005-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count180
An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
Release Date2017-07-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count135
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 Count1
Vote Count19
A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!
Release Date2011-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count114
Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?
Release Date2018-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count1
Vote Count24
Eleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.
Release Date2024-07-23
DepartmentProduction
JobConsulting Producer
Episode Count10
Vote Count102
The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden. The pair live across the street from Sally, whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him. Baby boomer Tom has little in life but his daughter Amber, who is dating Steve. Roy is a suburban pensioner who believes that he is one of the country's leading intellectuals.
Release Date2009-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
London's police force is in need of a public image revamp. And Chief Constable Richard Miller has found just the woman to do it...American visionary from the world of new media Liz Garvey, sets out to revolutionise the force's PR department just as an outbreak of violence erupts.
Release Date2014-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count34
Comedy thriller about three friends who embark on a journey that takes them to the extremes of their friendship, crossing every boundary imaginable to save a life.
Release Date2017-07-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count3
Vote Count13
Children's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.
Release Date1995-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Days Like These is a British TV series remake of the popular American sitcom That '70s Show. Directed by Bob Spiers, it was broadcast Fridays at 8.30pm on ITV in 1999 and used many of the same names, or slight alterations. It was set in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired. Five began broadcasts of That '70s Show after the failure of Days Like These and it was one of the first comedy shows imported onto the channel.
Release Date1999-02-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
Seriously Weird is a TV show that played on YTV in Canada. In the UK it was shown on ITV, and in Australia it was shown on the ABC weekly show Rollercoaster.
Release Date2002-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
Release Date2010-05-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1176
When ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy hires her on-set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her identity, career and boyfriend in this hilarious comedy about trading places.
Release Date2020-12-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count113
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
Release Date2007-05-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count71
Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive.
Release Date2019-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count132
A coddled kid takes off for NYC where he joins forces with an old friend to produce a terrible Broadway play.
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.
Release Date2012-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1