Green Wing

Green Wing
GenreSitcom
Created byVictoria Pile
StarringTamsin Greig
Stephen Mangan
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Karl Theobald
Pippa Haywood
Mark Heap
Sarah Alexander
Sally Bretton
Oliver Chris
Olivia Colman
Michelle Gomez
Katie Lyons
Lucinda Raikes
Paterson Joseph
Sally Phillips
Darren Boyd
Theme music composerTrellis
Opening theme"Last Week"
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes18 (+2 shorts specials)
Production
Executive producerPeter Fincham
ProducerVictoria Pile
Running timeApprox. 50–55 minutes, Special 90 minutes
Production companyTalkback
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release3 September 2004 (2004-09-03) –
4 January 2007 (2007-01-04)
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Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony – Channel 4 commissioner Caroline Leddy and producer Victoria Pile – and stars Mark Heap, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. It focuses on soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters, portrayed in sketch-like scenes and sequences in which the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasising the body language of the characters. The show had eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames production company for Channel 4.

The series ran between 3 September 2004 and 19 May 2006. One episode, filmed with the second series, was shown as a 90-minute-long special on 4 January 2007 in the UK, but was shown earlier in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006.[1] Separate from the series, a sketch was made for Comic Relief and screened on 11 March 2005. Another was performed live at The Secret Policeman's Ball on 14 October 2006. On 29 April 2024, Green Wing returned as a six-part audio series released by Audible entitled Green Wing: Resuscitated.

  1. ^ Boosey, Mark (22 January 2007). "Green Wing Newsletter: Issue 17". British Sitcom Guide. Retrieved 10 October 2007.