Nickolas Grace 1992. Following a recurring role in 1993 as the unnamed 'Consultant' on Victor Lewis-Smith's loosely hospital-based sketch show "Inside Victor Lewis-Smith", Grace played Marcus Green, the long-suffering husband of Dorien in "Birds of a Feather", in a couple of episodes between 1989 and 1997. He has also appeared three times in the BBC Sitcom "My Family". Grace played Underling the Butler in "The Drowsy Chaperone" with Elaine Paige at the Novello Theatre, which ended its run on 4 August 2007. On 29 July 2009 he appeared on the UK version of "Dragons Den" as the proposed director of a new
British sitcom It". Channel 4 has had recent successes with "Spaced", "Phoenix Nights", "Black Books", "Green Wing", "Peep Show" and "The Inbetweeners". The conventional sitcom has declined in importance in the schedules over time (in many cases superseded by the mixture of comedy and drama in dramedy series such as "Doc Martin" and "Hamish Macbeth") although the form is not extinct. Some popular sitcoms in the UK during the last ten years include "Outnumbered"; "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps", which ended its ninth series in 2011; and "The IT Crowd" (2006–2013). At the BBC, the late 2000s and