Steve Coogan production company ‘ripped off web sitcom’

Dr Sampson pointed to “numerous high-level similarities” between the two shows, such as the real comedy club setting, interspersing genuine live comedy acts and fly-on-the-wall documentary style, which “simply could not all have arisen by coincidence”. He continued: “LATMC is a mockumentary, not a sitcom, and one of its key features is that it presents substantial passages of actual stand-up, which Shambles does not.” ‘Deeply implausible’ Mr Hill added that the “similar real-life settings” and the “unsurprising features of showing comedy club personnel” are “all the series have in common”. He said: “As can be immediately seen by watching the shows, the two are very different and, leaving aside the defendant’s evidence that Shambles was not copied or referred to when making LATMC, it is deeply implausible that LATMC was in any way copied from Shambles”. Richard Taylor alleged that the film, which told the story of historian Philippa Langley’s search for the king’s skeleton under a Leicester car park in 2012, had made him appear “misogynistic” and “weasel-like”.