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Another network that has concentrated on doing a small number of things noisily – BBC3 – also performed far beyond expectations with victories for the sitcom Him and Her and the apocalyptic drama In the Flesh.
It said the 11-year-old youth channel's reputation for innovation and new talent, such as the sitcom Him and Her, was overshadowed in viewers' perceptions by the preponderance of US acquisitions (Family Guy) repeats and so-called "easy entertainment" such as its documentary series, Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents.
In the beautifully observed TV sitcom Him & Her, he plays Steve, an unemployed procrastinator whose ambitions stretch to drinking, watching porn and shagging his girlfriend.
It's been a good year for the Essex-born actor since we last met: he brought a convincing air of bullying menace to his role in Tony Basgallop's BBC1 murder mystery What Remains (one of the drama highlights of 2013 in my opinion), while the final series of the BBC3 sitcom Him & Her saw Stefan Golaszewski's lo-fi sitcom finally achieve the critical recognition it deserved.
Fantasy drama Being Human, Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood and sitcom Him and Her are among other programmes to have enjoyed both critical acclaim and audience popularity.
New BBC2 comedies include Mum, starring Lesley Manville from the creators of BBC3's Russell Tovey sitcom Him & Her, and Stag, a darkly comic thriller about a stag weekend from hell in the Scottish highlands.
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The Greenwich-born Harrison has had a variety of guest roles in sitcoms including Him & Her, White Van Man and the Dickens spoof The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, but his only other lead has been in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a curious US-British sitcom starring David Cross and Sharon Horgan.
Yet Robinson says that the outcome of his failed sitcom led him to the place he is today: content and busy.
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