Green Wing
Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony – Channel 4 commissioner Caroline Leddy and producer Victoria Pile – and stars Mark Heap, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. It focuses on soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters, portrayed in sketch-like scenes and sequences in which the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasising the body language of the characters. The show had eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames production company for Channel 4.
| Green Wing | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Victoria Pile |
| Starring | Mark Heap Tamsin Greig Sarah Alexander Sally Bretton Oliver Chris Olivia Colman Michelle Gomez Pippa Haywood Stephen Mangan Sally Phillips Julian Rhind-Tutt Karl Theobald |
| Theme music composer | Trellis |
| Opening theme | "Last Week" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (+2 shorts specials) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Peter Fincham |
| Producer | Victoria Pile |
| Running time | Approx. 50–55 minutes, Special 90 minutes |
| Production company | Talkback |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Release | 3 September 2004 – 4 January 2007 |
| Related | |
| Campus | |
The series ran between 3 September 2004 and 19 May 2006. One episode, filmed with the second series, was shown as a 90-minute-long special on 4 January 2007 in the UK, but was shown earlier in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006. Separate from the series, a sketch was made for Comic Relief and screened on 11 March 2005. Another was performed live at The Secret Policeman's Ball on 14 October 2006.