| Pompidou | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Matt Lucas Julian Dutton Ashley Blaker |
| Written by | Matt Lucas Julian Dutton Ashley Blaker Jon Foster James Lamont |
| Directed by | Charlie Hanson Matt Lucas |
| Starring | Matt Lucas Alex Macqueen |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Layla Smith Matt Lucas |
| Producers | Charlie Hanson Katie Mavroleon |
| Production locations | Langleybury, Hertfordshire |
| Editor | Jon Blow |
| Running time | 25-30 minutes |
| Production companies | Netflix John Stanley Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Release | 1 March – 5 April 2015 |
| Related | |
| Little Britain | |
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Pompidou is a British television comedy series for BBC Two created and written by comedians Matt Lucas with Julian Dutton and Ashley Blaker & James Foster and Jon Lamont.[1] It began airing on 1 March 2015 on BBC Two.
Produced by Lucas' own company John Stanley Productions[2] for the BBC, Pompidou is the first all-visual, i.e. having no meaningful dialogue, half-hour mainstream TV sitcom since Bradley in the late 1980s. (Although there have been several visual comedies broadcast in the interim, none of these were half-hour sitcoms: Mr. Bean usually consisted of two or three sketches, Oddbods was a one-off, The Baldy Man consisted of two sketches per episode, and Uncle Max and Zzzap! were both 15-minute children's shows.)[3]
A pilot was written in 2012, and 6 episodes were commissioned by Controller of BBC One Danny Cohen and Controller of Comedy Commissioning Shane Allen in Spring 2013. The series was written and filmed across 2013 and 2014. The first episode aired on BBC Two on 1 March 2015.[3]
Inspired by Charlie Chaplin, Morph, Laurel and Hardy, Pingu, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and Marty Feldman, Pompidou aimed to reinvent visual comedy for the twenty-first century, and create an international series for a global audience.[4]