'Rising Damp' creator Eric Chappell says the show "appears to have been written by someone else, from another world" when he looks back on it now. The hugely popular ITV sitcom ran for four series ...

TV classic Rising Damp is the latest sitcom to be resurrected on stage, following the likes of Yes, Prime Minister and Steptoe & Son. Actor Don Warrington and writer Eric Chappell discuss reviving the ...

Mr Chappell, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, began his writing career with a play called The Banana Box, which debuted at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970 before making its way to the West End in 1973.

ITV3 has announced that it will be celebrating Rising Damp, "one of ITV's greatest ever sitcoms", over the Easter weekend. The channel will be dedicating its entire schedule to the iconic comedy, ...

This Easter Weekend, ITV3 will be celebrating classic sitcom Rising Damp in a big way. The channel will be showing every episode of the 1970s comedy back-to-back, and screening the film too. The ...

Eric Chappell (left) wrote the TV hit Rising Damp, which starred Leonard Rossiter (right) Eric Chappell, the creator of hit TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88. Chappell, who ...