Blakewill & Harris

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Blakewill & Harris (Marc Blakewill and James Harris) are a UK-based comedy writing partnership working in television and radio.

They have written on the popular CBBC sketch shows Horrible Histories and Sorry, I've Got No Head , as well as ITV1 topical animation shows Headcases and 2DTV , Comedy Cuts (ITV2), The Charlotte Church Show and The 11 O'Clock Show (both Channel 4) and The Sitcom Trials (ITV1) - and have written caustic put-downs for Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link (BBC).

Most recently they wrote the pilot for Ace of Clubs, a BBC panel show hosted by Warwick Davis, as well as contributing to Adrian Poynton's BBC Three sitcom White Van Man , starring Will Mellor, four series of Russell Howard's Good News (BBC Three) and the ITV1 Christmas special The All Star Impression Show.

On radio they have written for Week Ending , The Bearded Ladies and This Day (all BBC Radio 4) as well as Grrr (BBC Radio Scotland), Hudd And Quantick's Global Village, The News Huddlines and Parsons & Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (both BBC Radio 2). They have also had topical material performed on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Marc Blakewill & James Harris were awarded the inaugural Fringe Report award for Best Comedy Writers in 2003, were part of the writing team that received a BAFTA nomination for series one of Horrible Histories at the 2009 Children's BAFTAs and were principal writers on the RTS Student Award-nominated sketch show TV or Not TV.

In 2008, James Harris and Marc Blakewill founded Glandoo Productions.