Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy "Veep", the BBC Television series "The Thick of It" and its film spin-off "In the Loop". He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English, Roche became a stand-up comedian using material from a magazine he had produced in his final year. He was spotted at one of his stand-up comedy shows and
Neighbours spin-offs Years" was released in 2015 to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary. Two television spin-offs have reached the pilot stage. After Clive Gibbons (Geoff Paine) became popular with viewers, his 1989 return to the show was scripted to set up a spin-off series "City Hospital". A pilot was made, but it was not picked up by any television networks. Following Caroline Gillmer's exit from "Neighbours" in 1996, she filmed a pilot episode for a sitcom based around her character Cheryl Stark, which was initially called "In Cheryl's Arms". The sitcom's name was later changed to "In Carol's Arms", as the networks