Daniela Denby-Ashe & Co, as well as the Channel 4 sitcom "Desmond's". Daniela also appeared alongside Jennifer Saunders and Julia Sawalha in "Absolutely Fabulous". Her big break came in 1995 when she landed the role of Sarah Hills in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". She played this character until 1999. The following year she got the role of Janey Harper in the BBC sitcom, "My Family". Daniela took a break from "My Family" for the fourth series in 2003, but returned to the role in 2004. The eleventh and final series first aired on BBC One from June 2011. In 2004 she
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'