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 consciously avoids traditional situation comedy themes and storylines to branch out into more unusual topics or narrative methods. "Blackadder" (1983–1989) and "Yes Minister" (1980–1988, 2013) moved what is often a domestic or workplace genre into the corridors of power. A later development was the mockumentary in such series as "The Office" (2001–2003). The first British television sitcom was "Pinwright's Progress", broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form did not take off until the transfer of "Hancock's Half Hour" from BBC radio in 1956. Hancock biographer John Fisher dates the first use of the term 'situation comedy'