Victoria Pile

British television director and producer

Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show Smack the Pony and the sitcom Green Wing.

Early life

Pile began her career writing for Not the Nine O'Clock News whilst still a student at University of Sussex.^[1]^[2] She has also written for Spitting Image and CBBC.^[2]

Writer

Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–82)
Dear Heart (1982–83)
Karen Kay (1983–86)
Pushing Up Daisies, later Coming Next... (1984–85)
Lazarus and Dingwall (1991)
You Gotta Be Jokin' (1991)
Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
Green Wing (2004–2007)
Campus (2009-2011)
Piglets (2024) ^[3]

She has also written a pilot for ABC, set in a police precinct in America. British Sitcom Guide states that "it isn't often that British writers deliberately pitch a series to the American market first".^[4]

Producer / director

Los Dos Bros (1999–2001)
Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
Green Wing (2004–2007)
Campus (2009-2011)
The Delivery Man (2015)
Piglets (2024)

References

^ Green Wing's midwife and surgeon – Telegraph
^ ^a ^b 96. Victoria Pile | Media | The Guardian
^ "Piglets". British Comedy Guide. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
^ "Green Wing writers create US pilot comedy". sitcom.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.