Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing.
Early life
editPile began her career writing for Not the Nine O'Clock News whilst still a student at University of Sussex.[1][2] She has also written for Spitting Image and CBBC.[2]
Writer
edit- Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82)
- Dear Heart (1982–83)
- Karen Kay (1983–86)
- Pushing Up Daisies, later Coming Next... (1984–85)
- Lazarus and Dingwall (1991)
- You Gotta Be Jokin' (1991)
- Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
- Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
- Green Wing (2004–2007)
- Campus (2009-2011)
- Piglets (2024) [3]
She has also written a pilot for ABC, set in a police precinct in America. British Sitcom Guide states that "it isn't often that British writers deliberately pitch a series to the American market first".[4]
Producer / director
edit- Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
- Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
- Green Wing (2004–2007)
- Campus (2009-2011)
- The Delivery Man (2015)
- Piglets (2024)
References
edit- ^ Green Wing's midwife and surgeon – Telegraph
- ^ a b 96. Victoria Pile | Media | The Guardian
- ^ "Piglets". British Comedy Guide. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- ^ "Green Wing writers create US pilot comedy". sitcom.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.