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Tracey Ullman returns to UK comedy

The very-gifted Tracey Ullman is returning to BBC One for a new 6 part comedy series.

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After a number of years working in the US, BAFTA and Emmy award-winner Tracey Ullman is returning to BBC One.

A six-part series, The Tracey Ullman Show (which bears the same name as her US series) will feature her portraying a multitude of diverse and distinct characters living in, or visiting, the busy global hub that is the UK.

Ullman last appeared on the BBC in A Kick Up The Eighties and Three Of A Kind in the early and mid-Eighties before emigrating to the States where she enjoys huge success as an actress, writer, producer and director, pushing the boundaries of character comedy while also introducing The Simpsons to television.

“It’s a privilege to be doing this,” said Ullman. “I still feel as inspired to inhabit people as I did when I was six, standing on the windowsill in my mother’s bedroom, putting on a show. The BBC has changed a bit since the last time I worked here, when it was all men in bow ties who had completed National Service. Now there are a lot more women. Great ones. The important things haven’t changed, though. The BBC still provides an environment that allows you the freedom to create the best shows possible.”

Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning, added, “It’s about time the Americans gave her back. Tracey has been the missing gem in the British comedy crown for too long. Talent doesn’t come much bigger and the BBC audience is in for a huge treat.”

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