Simon Dunn

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Blind Men

Nick Hancock wrote a sitcom. He co-wrote it with the sitcom’s creator Chris England. It was on ITV at the end of 1997, and starred Jesse Birdsall and Tamsin Greig. It was not called Me, You And Him, nor was it called Holding The Baby. It was called Blind Men, and it was about men who sold blinds. See?

Sunday Mirror – Sunday 16 November 1997

The show got less of a short shrift in the local papers, including this full page spread …

Birmingham Weekly Mercury – Sunday 23 November 1997

… which even spilled onto another page.

Apparently, it was piloted by NBC for an American remake, but I can’t find a story about that. So here’s a clip from a trailer the night before the first episode instead.

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