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Lead Balloon

Lead Balloon is a British sitcom television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Raquel Cassidy, Sean Power and…

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Genre
Sitcom
Camera setup
Single-camera
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Created by
Jack Dee Pete Sinclair
Directed by
Alex Hardcastle
Editor
Russell Beeden

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Lead Balloon

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples65
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

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Lead Balloon

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related to Reception · 20
Lead Balloon → BBC's, Crilly, Curb, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dee, Dee's, Gardner, Gill, Hermione Eyre, Ian Johns, Immediately, Larry David, Rick, Spleen, Sunday, The Independent, The Stage's Mark Wright, The Sunday Times, The Times, Thomas Sutcliffe
related to Writing · 12
Lead Balloon → BBC Four Janice Hadlow, Controller, Curb, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dee, Dee's, Pete Sinclair, Seinfeld, The, The Office, To, Woody Allen
related to history · 11
Lead Balloon → BBC, BBC Four, BBC HD, BBC Two, BBC's, December, Episodes, May, November, October, The
related to External links · 3
Lead Balloon → BBC OnlineLead Balloon, British Comedy GuideLead Balloon, IMDb
Camera setup · 1
Lead Balloon → Single-camera
Country of origin · 1
Lead Balloon → United Kingdom
Created by · 1
Lead Balloon → Jack Dee Pete Sinclair
Directed by · 1
Lead Balloon → Alex Hardcastle
Editor · 1
Lead Balloon → Russell Beeden
Ending theme · 1
Lead Balloon → "One Way Road" by Paul Weller/Written by Noel Gallagher

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series bbc first two dee episodes comedy lead four rick balloon 2007 third curb 2006 2011 rick's episode november writing

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Lead BalloonCamera setupSingle-camera1.00infobox
Lead BalloonCountry of originUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
Lead BalloonCreated byJack Dee Pete Sinclair1.00infobox
Lead BalloonDirected byAlex Hardcastle1.00infobox
Lead BalloonEditorRussell Beeden1.00infobox
Lead BalloonEnding theme"One Way Road" by Paul Weller/Written by Noel Gallagher1.00infobox
Lead BalloonExecutive producersAddison Cresswell Andrew Beint Lucy Lumsden1.00infobox
Lead BalloonGenreSitcom1.00infobox
Lead BalloonNetworkBBC Four (2006) BBC Two (2007–2011)1.00infobox
Lead BalloonNo. of episodes27 (list of episodes)1.00infobox
Lead BalloonNo. of series41.00infobox
Lead BalloonOriginal languageEnglish1.00infobox
Lead BalloonProducerAlex Hardcastle1.00infobox
Lead BalloonProduction companyOpen Mike Productions1.00infobox
Lead BalloonRelease4 October 2006 (2006-10-04) – 5 July 2011 (2011-07-05)1.00infobox
Lead BalloonRunning timeapprox. 29 minutes1.00infobox
Lead BalloonStarringJack Dee Raquel Cassidy Sean Power Anna Crilly Antonia Campbell-Hughes Tony Gardner Rasmus Hardiker1.00infobox
Lead Balloonis aBritish sitcom television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four0.90text

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