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.
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 Date:2024-07-23
Department:Production
Job:Consulting Producer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:91
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 Date:2020-12-03
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:110
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 Date:2019-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:129
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 Date:2019-03-27
Department:Production
Job:Executive Consultant
Episode Count:31
Vote Count:788
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 Date:2018-10-25
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:24
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 Date:2017-07-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:132
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 Date:2017-07-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:13
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 Date:2014-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:33
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 Date:2012-08-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!
Release Date:2011-09-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:110
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 Date:2010-05-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1153
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 Date:2009-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:4
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 Date:2008-12-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:76
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 Date:2007-05-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:71
A coddled kid takes off for NYC where he joins forces with an old friend to produce a terrible Broadway play.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
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 Date:2005-05-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:174
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 Date:2003-09-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:39
Vote Count:379
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 Date:1999-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:14
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 Date:1999-02-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:13