Lesley Joseph Seven Dwarfs" at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Joseph then portrayed Frau Blucher in the West End production of "Young Frankenstein". From 1989 to 1998, Joseph played Dorien Green in the sitcom "Birds of a Feather" which, at the time, aired on the BBC In December 2011, it was confirmed that Joseph would reunite with fellow "Birds of a Feather" cast members, Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke, for a theatre adaptation of the series. The trio toured the United Kingdom from May to July 2012. A new series of "Birds of a Feather" was filmed after the rights had been acquired
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 The conventional sitcom has declined in importance in the schedules over time (in many cases superseded by the mixture of comedy and drama in dramedy series such as "Doc Martin" and "Hamish Macbeth") although the form is not extinct.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