Comedy Playhouse Comedy Playhouse Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including "Steptoe and Son", "Meet the Wife", "Till Death Us Do Part", "All Gas and Gaiters", "Up Pompeii!", "Not in Front of the Children", "Me Mammy", "That's Your Funeral", "The Liver Birds", "Are You Being Served?" and "Last of the Summer Wine", which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In March 2014, it was announced that "Comedy Playhouse" would make a
Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Pilot Casting work on television pilot episodes, or a series first episode. Outstanding Achievement in Pilot Casting Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Pilot Casting Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Pilot Casting The Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Pilot Casting is an award handed out annually by the Casting Society of America. It was introduced at the Art Directors Guilds' twelfth annual honors, in 1996 (honoring work from the previous year, as well as early months of the ceremony's year), after first being grouped together with casting for dramatic pilot episodes for the category Outstanding Achievement in Pilot Casting, which