He's here to promote Grandma's House, a new family sitcom which he's co-written with
Swimer. Set in a family house in Gants Hill, the suburb on London where Amstell grew up, and exploring the eccentricities of a close-knit family, it will draw inevitable comparisons with The Royle Family.
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Swimer, the IIP assessor responsible for certifying EHS, noted, "It is clear that EHS president George Scott recognizes that his people are his most important asset and he is committed to training and development as a key to competing in his marketplace.
Crims, a new BBC Three comedy written by Adam Kay and Dan
Swimer, sees James as Luke - a nice, normal, sensitive Welsh lad who is about to embark on a trip of a lifetime to Australia with girlfriend Gemma...
GRANDMA'S HOUSE BBC2, 10pm SIMON Amstell's writing partner Dan
Swimer has said there's unlikely to be a third series of Grandma's House, which would be a huge pity.
Amstell and his co-writer Dan
Swimer have cleverly sketched a family forced by blood to be nice to one another, without sharing anything else in common.
Now we get the chance to find out what Amstell can achieve away from the music world in Grandma's House, which he has penned with long-term collaborator Dan
Swimer. It appears he may still be drawing on what he knows though, as he's cast himself as a TV presenter - called Simon.
The show was penned by Adam Kay (Mongrels) and Dan
Swimer (who previously worked on Bad Education, and Grandma's House with Simon Amstell), while The League Of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson was script editor.