Too Much Sun, a 6-episode British sitcom, was written and produced for the BBC by Margaret Oberman and Jim Piddock. Oberman was a writer on the long-running US comedy Saturday Night Live between 1981 and 1985 and Piddock an English born actor who sold his first screenplay in 1990 for a mid-six figure sum and since then splits his time between writing/producing and acting.

Lee filmed the series on location around London and in front of a live studio audience, in England, during November and December 1999. The series was transmitted on BBC1 at 10.35pm between the 27th of October and 1st of December 2000. The fact that the Beeb waited almost a year before putting the show on air, says alot about the corporations lack of faith in the finished product. Coupled with various scheduling issues, airing at different times throughout it’s short run, plus a lack of any promotion on the BBC itself, did nothing to help the series find an audience. With some VERY un-PC jokes and characters the series was panned by critics and had some of the lowest debut ratings for a BBC sitcom. That said, the show does stand up to repeat viewings and should be commended for it’s honest portrayal of two Brits who will do anything to get laid and/or get a job. With humour very reminiscent of the more successful “Men Behaving Badly” it’s disappointing the series was never re-aired and had a chance to be ‘re-discovered’…