 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Victoria Pile" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing.
Early life
Pile began her career writing for Not the Nine O'Clock News whilst still a student at University of Sussex. She has also written for Spitting Image and CBBC.
Writer
- Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82)
- Dear Heart (1982–83)
- Karen Kay (1983–86)
- Pushing Up Daisies, later Coming Next... (1984–85)
- Lazarus and Dingwall (1991)
- You Gotta Be Jokin' (1991)
- Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
- Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
- Green Wing (2004–2007)
- Campus (2009-2011)
- Piglets (2024)
She has also written a pilot for ABC, set in a police precinct in America. British Sitcom Guide states that "it isn't often that British writers deliberately pitch a series to the American market first".
Producer / director
- Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
- Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
- Green Wing (2004–2007)
- Campus (2009-2011)
- The Delivery Man (2015)
- Piglets (2024)
References
- Green Wing's midwife and surgeon – Telegraph
- ^ 96. Victoria Pile | Media | The Guardian
- "Piglets". British Comedy Guide. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- "Green Wing writers create US pilot comedy". sitcom.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.