Graham Smith

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  Graham Smith - Controller of Comedy, Five TV

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  Graham Smith, Controller of Comedy and Entertainment , five

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  Five's Controller of Comedy and Entertainment, Graham Smith, said: "Suburban Shootout has been a groundbreaking series for Five and I'm delighted that we've once again been able to assemble such a stellar cast of British comedy acting talent."

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  But despite the dangers inherent in making jokes at the expense of dying and drug-taking felines, Five's comedy head Graham Smith was the only panellist whose life was once put on the line as part of a hard day's graft at the joke face.
  
  He said: "The only time I've ever been threatened with death was when I turned down a project by Peter Richardson who created The Comic Strip, who is a complete hero of mine.
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  "If you read a lot of scripts you can obviously tell in the first few pages if this is something that might work for you, is funny or has engaging characters," said Smith.
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  As Smith said, "Once your clip is up on the site you can use it to target the right people.
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  "Don't send in a comedy set in an office with a really difficult self-deceiving bloke at its heart or send in a comedy about a country lady vicar," advised Smith.

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  It caught the attention of Five's controller of comedy, Graham Smith, a regular at Ealing's comedy nights."I loved it but I didn't want to make a mock documentary," says Smith.
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  "Sharon workshopped with the actors and then she went away and wrote the script," says Smith.
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  Once Chambers (then Five's director of programmes) gave Angelo's the go-ahead, Smith commissioned two scripts, before greenlighting a six-part series last year.
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  Smith, however, is resolutely positive."It's turned out exactly as I hoped it would," he says.
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  Commissioner: Graham Smith

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  Five's controller of comedy, Graham Smith, said: "Written by Sharon Horgan and featuring an outstanding cast of Britain's brightest and best new comic actors, Angelo's promises a comedic 'full English,' as our mis-matched visitors to Angelo's cafe all plot their escape to greater things."
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  Next Friday, Smith will be discussing the future of TV comedy with other comedy commissioners at the Broadcast TV Comedy Forum.

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  Graham Smith, controller of comedy and entertainment, Five:

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  Its commissioning editor, Graham Smith, describes it as "a black comedy thriller about chic subur... Twin barrels of laughs...

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  Published on: 7/15/2004    Last Visited: 1/9/2008  

  Five and Paramount Comedy have appointed Graham Smith to oversee a joint co-production initiative to create and develop new home-grown comedy series, it was announced today (THURS).
  
  Smith comes from the New Comedy department at BBC Entertainment and was formerly Commissioning Editor Entertainment and Comedy at Channel 4.
  
  In his role as Commissioning Editor, Comedy, the first position of its kind for Five, Smith will develop original, fresh comedy series, enabling both channels to create top quality British programming to be broadcast on both channels.
  
  The appointment follows Five and Paramount's strategy of finding new, long-running scripted comedy formats for primetime.Smith's experience in new comedy development will allow him to identify and nurture new, successful formats which will then be funded by both channels.
  
  Smith will report to Ben Frow, Five's Controller of Entertainment and Features, Five and Heather Jones, Director of Programming, Paramount Comedy.
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  "I'm delighted we're doing this in partnership with Paramount Comedy, which has a great reputation for discovering and nurturing home-grown comedy talent, and in Graham we have found the perfect executive for the job."
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  This initiative will cement our joint commitment to new comedy and also gets us Graham Smith as our comedy tsar, which is quite frankly, a bit of a coup."
  
  Smith added: "Blimey!It's going to be like having two wives.Imagine that!"
  
  At the BBC, Smith has been part of the team that developed and produced Little Britain.He is currently Executive Producer of the new Dom Joly series for BBC1, and BBC4's Mark Steel Lectures.

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