The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 written by Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards...

 and Aschlin Ditta

Aschlin Ditta

-Biography:Aschlin Ditta was born on June 20, 1968 in Barnet, north London, UK, and was brought up in Leicester and then Ely in the Fens. His father, Douglas, was an actor and his mother, Pamela, a florist. Aschlin works as a television and film writer. His background is in comedy and he was a...

. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters

The Catherine Tate Show characters

The following characters appear in the comedy sketch series The Catherine Tate Show on BBC Two. Comedian Catherine Tate portrays all of the characters featured most prominently in the show, which she created with Derren Litten and her team of writers...

. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two

BBC Two

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 and is shown worldwide through the BBC

BBC

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. Collectively, the show has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards

British Comedy Awards

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 and an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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, and it has won two Royal Television Society Award

Royal Television Society

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s, two British Comedy Awards and a National Television Award

National Television Awards

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 since its debut in 2004.
The first series of the show, which consisted of six episodes, aired from 16 February to 22 March 2004.