Lead Balloon

Television series

Started: October 4, 2006
Ended: July 5, 2011
Creator: Jack Dee
Network: BBC Four
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 27
Cast: Jack Dee
, Raquel Cassidy
, Anna Crilly
, Sean Power
+3 more
Genre: sitcom

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Lead Balloon is a British sitcom television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Raquel Cassidy, Sean Power and Tony Gardner also star. The first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC Four in 2006, with the first episode achieving the highest ratings for a comedy on the channel. Repeats of the series were run on BBC Two and BBC HD, bringing it to a larger audience. The second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two from November 2007; the third series aired from November 2008; and the final series aired from 31 May 2011 until 5 July.

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Director: Alex Hardcastle
List of episodes: list of Lead Balloon episodes
Released: October 4, 2006
Website: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t889

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