The Smoking Room

The Smoking Room
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Brian Dooley
Starring	Robert Webb
Opening theme	"Close to Me" by The Cure
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	17 (inc. Christmas special)
Production
Editors	Mark Lawrence Richard Halladey Paul Machliss Nigel Williams
Running time	29 mins approx.
Original release
Network	BBC Three
Release	29 June 2004 (2004-06-29) – 13 September 2005 (2005-09-13)
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The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on BBC Three between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on 21 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005.

The first series, including the Christmas Special, was released on DVD by the BBC on 6 February 2006 and on CD in a four-disc set on 4 April 2005 (without the Christmas Special). The second series was released on 16 October 2006; a boxed set containing both series was released on the same date.

A third series was not commissioned; in an interview for the BBC News website on 30 November 2006, Robert Webb (who played Robin) said in passing, "...there is no more Smoking Room". England's smoking ban, which prohibits indoor smoking in workplaces, came into force on 1 July 2007, as a result of which internal smoking rooms, like the one in which the series is set, became illegal.^[1]