{"id":11712,"date":"2022-03-14T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-bridget-christie\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:28:03","slug":"channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 Commissions Comedy from Bridget Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4 has commissioned <em>The Change<\/em>, a comedy series created and written by multi-award-winning comedian, actor and writer Bridget Christie, who also stars.<\/p>\n<p>The series centers on Linda, a 50-year-old working-class married mother of two, who has an existential crisis after believing she has early-onset dementia. When she finds out she&#8217;s just going through menopause, she feels invigorated and vows to spend some time doing things for herself. She dusts off her old Triumph motorbike, which hasn&#8217;t been ridden in 30 years, and sets off alone to explore the Forest of Dean.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Change<\/em> is produced by Expectation, with Christie, Nerys Evans and Morwenna Gordon serving as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>Christie said: \u201cI\u2019ve got a Channel 4 series? Are you joking? I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t know anything about this. Unless I\u2019ve forgotten? I am having terrible trouble remembering things at the moment because of the menopause. What\u2019s it about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fiona McDermott, head of comedy at Channel 4, said: \u201cBridget pitched the show with the tag line \u2018<em>Shirley Valentine<\/em> meets <em>Deliverance<\/em>. With pigs.\u2019 She had us at \u2018pigs.\u2019 We\u2019re so thrilled to be working with her and Expectation and to be able to hero a woman like Linda at the center of a show that so brilliantly tackles big themes\u2014feminism, health, identity, class and the natural world\u2014but wraps them up with Bridget\u2019s signature charm, curiosity and comic expertise. It\u2019s a timely show from a comic at the height of her powers.\u201d channeling<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, executive producer for Expectation, added: \u201cWe couldn&#8217;t be more excited to work with Bridget on channeling her brilliant comic voice into a narrative comedy. She&#8217;s putting the menopause at the heart of the story, against the beautiful, magical and at times unsettling backdrop of the Forest of Dean, and we\u2019ve no doubt <em>The Change<\/em> will be a real treat for Channel 4 viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4 has commissioned The Change, a comedy series created and written by multi-award-winning comedian, actor and writer Bridget Christie, who also stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":11713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[117,1046],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-channel-4","tag-expectation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Channel 4 Commissions Comedy from Bridget Christie - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Channel 4 Commissions Comedy from Bridget Christie - TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Channel 4 has commissioned The Change, a comedy series created and written by multi-award-winning comedian, actor and writer Bridget Christie, who also stars.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-14T15:43:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-14T16:28:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Channel4-TheChange-0322.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"453\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"243\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/\",\"name\":\"Channel 4 Commissions Comedy from Bridget Christie - TVEUROPE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-14T15:43:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-14T16:28:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2022\/03\/14\/channel-4-commissions-comedy-from-bridget-christie\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Channel 4 Commissions Comedy from Bridget Christie\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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