Matt Lucas stars as an oddball aristocrat in a trailer for Pompidou.
BBC Two's silent comedy stars Lucas as Pompidou, a penniless eccentric who lives in a caravan with his dog and butler after falling on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) stars opposite Lucas as Hove, Pompidou's loyal butler who finds himself involved in various hijinks.
Each week sees the duo faced with a new challenge, such as getting their hands on a priceless bowl and performing surgery.
The likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances throughout the six-part series.
The show was inspired by Lucas's love for classic silent comedy such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Mr Bean.
Pompidou will start on BBC Two on Sunday, March 1 at 6.30pm.
BBC Two's silent comedy stars Lucas as Pompidou, a penniless eccentric who lives in a caravan with his dog and butler after falling on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) stars opposite Lucas as Hove, Pompidou's loyal butler who finds himself involved in various hijinks.
Each week sees the duo faced with a new challenge, such as getting their hands on a priceless bowl and performing surgery.
The likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances throughout the six-part series.
The show was inspired by Lucas's love for classic silent comedy such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Mr Bean.
Pompidou will start on BBC Two on Sunday, March 1 at 6.30pm.
- 2/22/2015
- Digital Spy
BBC One has revealed casting and a first image for Matt Lucas's new comedy series Pompidou.
The six-parter - now shooting for broadcast in 2015 - is inspired by Lucas's passion for classic silent comedy, such as the works of Charlie Chaplin.
Billed as a "visual comedy series", Pompidou will star the Little Britain comic as the title character - an elderly oddball aristocrat who has fallen on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) plays Hove - Pompidou's long-suffering butler - while the likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances.
"Matt has worked incredibly hard on creating a unique comedy universe for Pompidou," said Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning for the BBC.
"Only someone of his immense talent and experience could achieve something that feels so modern and inventive which also has an underlying nod to past classic comedy masters like Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy.
The six-parter - now shooting for broadcast in 2015 - is inspired by Lucas's passion for classic silent comedy, such as the works of Charlie Chaplin.
Billed as a "visual comedy series", Pompidou will star the Little Britain comic as the title character - an elderly oddball aristocrat who has fallen on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) plays Hove - Pompidou's long-suffering butler - while the likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances.
"Matt has worked incredibly hard on creating a unique comedy universe for Pompidou," said Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning for the BBC.
"Only someone of his immense talent and experience could achieve something that feels so modern and inventive which also has an underlying nod to past classic comedy masters like Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy.
- 6/17/2014
- Digital Spy
Roly-poly funnywoman Bella Emberg regularly left millions of TV viewers in tears of laughter during the 1980s and early '90s. The rotund comic found fame acting as one of Russ Abbot's stooges in his Madhouse comedy series, where she often stole the show with her performances as Blunderwoman. Aside from her work with Abbot, Emberg worked on The Benny Hill Show, Z Cars and has even made three cameo appearances (more)...
- 1/23/2009
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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