The Independent - London, November 2nd, 1997
The television sitcom - all spiralling misunderstandings and plywood scenery - is back with a vengeance this winter: nine new series are awaiting transmission.
But plausible ideas seem harder than ever to come by; and in the next few months the biggest sitcom-writing guns around are going to be trained on your sitting room, bringing some of the most unlikely storylines ever written to your small screen.
There will be shows written by John Sullivan (of Only Fools and Horses) about a mini-cab firm; by Roy Clarke (of Last of The Summer Wine and Keeping up Appearances) about a computer company b...
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