Trevor's World of Sport

Trevor's World of Sport
Cast of Trevor's World of Sport
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Andy Hamilton
Directed by	Andy Hamilton
Starring	Neil Pearson Paul Reynolds Rosalind Ayres Abdul Salis Cosima Shaw Claire Skinner
Composer	Matthew Scott
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producers	Denise O'Donoghue Jimmy Mulville
Producer	Sue Howells
Running time	30 mins
Production company	Hat Trick Productions
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	15 August (2003-08-15) – 6 October 2003 (2003-10-06)

Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. One series of the television series was made, followed by three series which were aired on BBC Radio 4, as a continuation of the television series.

• Neil Pearson as Trevor Heslop
• Paul Reynolds as Sammy Dobbs
• Rosalind Ayres as Theresa
• Abdul Salis as Barry
• Cosima Shaw as Heidrun
• Michael Fenton Stevens as Ralph Renton
• Claire Skinner as Meryl

The series is set in the world of TS Sports – a sports public relations firm, run by Trevor Heslop and his partner, the lascivious Sammy Dobbs (Paul Reynolds). Trevor is portrayed as an essentially decent, honest man in the corrupt money-obsessed industry of sporting celebrity, who is still deeply in love with his estranged wife Meryl (Claire Skinner). The other TS Sports office staff are the cool German receptionist Heidrun (Cosima Shaw), whose lesbianism obsesses Sammy; the young black trainee Barry (Abdul Salis); and strongly Christian office manager Theresa (Rosalind Ayres).

Andy Hamilton also appears in a minor role within the show, and several actors who have worked in his other comedy shows for television and radio appear. Neil Pearson was in Hamilton's Drop the Dead Donkey, as (briefly) was Michael Fenton Stevens who plays TS Sports' only regular client, fading celebrity Ralph Renton.

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers, dropping to 2.9 million for the second and third episodes. The subsequent episodes were rescheduled from Friday evenings (just after the 9:00pm watershed) to Monday nights (after the 10:00pm news), despite the Radio Times issues having already been published listing the originally scheduled transmission dates. Hamilton went public with his displeasure over the show's scheduling and vowed never to work for BBC1 again, though he has since changed his mind.^[1] A radio version was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, with subsequent series in 2005 and 2007.

The complete television series was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK on 6 May 2013.

• Trevor's World of Sport at IMDb
• Trevor's World of Sport at British Comedy Guide
• BBC Comedy Guide to this show