Richard Pinto is one of Britain’s finest mainstream comedy writers, having created and written hit shows with regular writing partners Sharat Sardana and Anil Gupta as well as on his own, for over 20 years. He recently moved into theatre, writing his first play for the RSC, and is now working on another for Birmingham Rep.

Television:

CHRISTMAS CAROLE (Sky Studios/Sky Max) December 2022

BOOMERS (Hat Trick Productions/BBC1) Series 1 – 2

CITIZEN KHAN (BBC Comedy for BBC1)
Co-Writer with Anil Gupta, co-created with Anil Gupta and Adil Ray
Series 1- 5

FRESH MEAT (Objective Productions for Channel 4) 2011
Contributing Writer
Series 1 & 2

ARMSTRONG AND MILLER (Hat Trick for BBC1)
Contributing Writer
Series 4

MUTUAL FRIENDS* (Hat Trick / BBC 1)
Original Series
Lead Dir. Catherine Morshead

BERN AND GLOW (Endemol)

MOVING WALLPAPER* (Kudos / ITV) 2008
Season 1, 2 eps

FAIRYTALES : CINDERELLA* (Hat Trick / BBC Northern Ireland) 2008

THE FULL CONTI* (Sketches for Objective / C4)
Starring Nina Conti

MUMBAI CALLING* (Allan McKeown) 2007

CATS AND DOGS* (Hat Trick/C4) 2007
Pilot

BAD PARENTS* (Caryn Mandabach) 2007

CHOPRATOWN (Gasp/BBC) 2006
Co-written with Anil Gupta and Sharat Sardana

BROMWELL HIGH (Hat Trick & Decode/C4) 2005/2006
Created and written with Richard Osman and Sharat Sardana
Animated series.
Winner of Best Comedy at the British Animation Awards 2006
Screened in Canada, US, Australia

THE KUMARS at NO. 42 (Hat Trick / BBC) 2001-2006
Created, written and produced with Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sharat Sardana.
7 Seasons. Format sales to US, Australia, Holland, Germany, Turkey, Italy.
British Comedy Award winner, International Emmy Award

SMALL POTATOES (Hat Trick/C4) 1999-2001
Created and written with Sharat Sardana
2 Seasons

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME 1998-2001
Co-creator and Lead Writer
2 Series and 2 specials
British Comedy Award winner
*co-written with Anil Gupta

Theatre:

TARTUFFE (Royal Shakespeare Company – Swan Theatre & Birmingham Rep)
Co-written with Anil Gupta
2018 & October – November 2022

ARMSTRONG AND MILLER LIVE UK Tour
Co-writer
September – November 2010

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME (UK Tour) 2000
Lead Writer

Radio:

ELVENQUEST* (BBC R4) 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
Co-creator and writer – 4 series

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME (UK Tour) 2000
Lead Writer – 3 series
Sony Award winner

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