My Family | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Fred Barron |
Directed by | Baz Taylor Jay Sandrich Dewi Humphreys Nic Phillips Ed Bye |
Starring | Robert Lindsay Zoë Wanamaker Kris Marshall Daniela Denby-Ashe Gabriel Thomson Siobhan Hayes Keiron Self Rhodri Meilir Tayler Marshall |
Opening theme | "My Family" |
Composer | Graham Jarvis |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 11 |
No. of episodes | 120 (+ 1 short) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Donald Taffner Jr. Geoffrey Perkins (2000–01) Fred Barron (2000–08) Sophie Clarke-Jervoise (2002–04) Ian Brown (2003–04) James Hendrie (2003–04) Tom Leopold (2006) Michael Jacob (2006–09) Tom Anderson (2007–11) |
Producer | John Bartlett |
Production locations | Chiswick, London, England |
Running time | 113x 30 minutes 3x 50 minutes 4x 60 minutes |
Production companies | Rude Boy Productions DLT Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 19 September 2000 2 September 2011 | –
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My Family is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadcast from 2002 onwards. My Family was voted 24th in the BBC's "Britain's Best Sitcom" in 2004 and was the most watched sitcom in the United Kingdom in 2008.[1] As of 2011, it is one of only twelve British sitcoms to pass the 100-episode mark.[2] In April 2020, BBC One began airing the series from the first episode in an 8 pm slot on Friday nights; along with this all 11 series were made available on BBC iPlayer.[3]
The show chronicles the lives of the Harpers, a fictional middle-class British family. Set in Chiswick in west London, it stars Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker as husband and wife Ben and Susan Harper, with Kris Marshall, Daniela Denby-Ashe and Gabriel Thomson as their children Nick, Janey and Michael.