John Finnemore Archives

You may have noticed a slight obsession from Bleeding Cool for the work of John Finnemore The finest broadcast comedy writer in Britain today, his work is mostly confined to the radio, including the sitcom Cabin Pressure, the short plays Double Acts, and the sketch show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme He is also working with[...]

Well, since you ask me for a final timeline for the events of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9, we now have had a hundred and twenty-two years of family history of the Noones, the Nightingales, the Wilkinsons, the Goldings and the Goldfarbs, from John Finnemore and his troop, here's my best stab at creating a[...]

Well, since you ask me for some kind of update on last week's stab at drawing together all the events of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9 so far.. over five episodes, we now have had a hundred and twenty-two years of family history The Noones, the Nightingales, the Wilkinsons, the Goldings, the Goldfarbs –[...]

Well, since you ask me for some kind of diagram drawing all the events of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9 so far.. over four episodes we now have had a hundred years of family history The Noons, the Nightingales, the Wilkinsons, the Goldings, the Goldfarbs – here's my best stab at creating a chronology[...]

Why I bring this up will be clear shortly. John Finnemore may be Britain's greatest living writer Certainly when Tom Stoppard karks it As well as contributing to many other folks' projects, he has the three created series Cabin Pressure, Double Acts, and John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme to his name, on BBC Radio 4, While in[...]

Cabin Pressure is one of the greatest sitcoms ever created, written and starring John Finnemore, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and Roger Allum I talk about it a lot Maybe little too much You can listen to a little of it here Finnemore also recently wrote for and appeared in, HBO's Avenue 5 and even[...]

We mentioned that the great British comedy writer/actor John Finnemore was going to both be writing for and appearing in Armando Iannucci's sci-fi comedy Avenue 5, airing on HBO in the US and Sky One. And a brief stab at the end of last week's episode and a fuller appearance in this week's, confirm him as[...]

Which means that it has the potential to get self-referential fast, If either Armando Iannucci or John Finnemore do it again, the whole thing could collapse upon itself in a singularity, forming a black hole of a social media event horizon, something from which none of us will escape Still, in for a penny. Four days[...]

But there's one writer that hasn't been officially named but the whisper of a mention in an interview in a local newspaper, The Warrington Guardian, back in August made me sit up and take note, when it came across my Google searches. John Finnemore Writer of one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, Cabin Pressure,[...]

The Rebel Alliance is a new play by John Finnemore for radio, part of his Double Acts series for BBC Radio 4, starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Una Stubbs (Sherlock). And while the play has many Star Wars references to justify the headline, one of the characters has never seen the film… The episode in question takes place[...]

The brilliant Miles Jupp also has an indecent amount of fun as the villain. From that we move to Una McCormack's darker, more emotional script, with Benny exploring the ruins of an ancient labyrinth in the company of Sheila Reid and Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore It's an eerie, sorrowful story and as different to the first[...]