Facts/Locations

The Birth of Vicky Pollard.

Back in 1993, Lucas made a short documentary for his college course by going up to random people and filming their response to the question 'How are you?'. One of the subjects was a 12-year-old schoolboy whose mumbling, inarticulate response ("yeah, no, yeah, dunno") made Lucas laugh so much that he used him as the template for notorious Vicky Pollard.

Vicky's television credits include 'Crime Watch' (a record breaking 27 appearances), 'South West Today' (taking part in an item of happy slapping) and various CCTV Cameras around the Bristol area.

Lou and Andy.

The maniac in the wheelchair and his put upon helper actually first appeared on 'Rock Profile' as twisted representations of Lou Reed and Andy Warhol. Walliams liked the characters so much he insisted on reviving them, with added wheelchair, for 'Little Britain'.

Lou's middle name was revealed in Series 3, Episode 3 - Lou Bob Todd.

Lou and Andy are named after Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.

Lou and Andy are the only characters to appear in every single episode of the show (including the Comic Relief special), Marjorie Dawes is in second place: she appears throughout the recurring series.

General Facts.

When Little Britain series two premiered on BBC THREE last year, it averaged 1.5 million viewers, making it the highest-rating BBC THREE show ever.

Little Britain (series one) was the fastest-selling UK television DVD title ever, with 1.8 million sales to date. And true to form, when series two was released in October 2005, it broke all first week sales records, to go straight to Number One in the DVD sales charts.

Several sketches were removed from Series 1. Two featured April and Neville, another pair included the Peter Andre character, while also excised were some in which Mr Cleeves and the Piano Player appeared.

In Series 3, there is an homage to One Foot in the Grave and its character Victor Meldrew when Bubbles De Vere says the popular catchphrase, "I don't believe it!", as her first line in the series.

David's home 'Supernova Heights' formerly belonged to Oasis star Noel Gallagher.

In 2005, Heat magazine reported that a request by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to appear in one of the sketches was turned down, with Walliams and Lucas stating that they did not want to be seen as biased towards Labour in the run-up to the general election.

In the series the village of Llandewi Breffi is spelt slightly differently from the real village of Llandewi Brefi (which has only one 'f'). Furthermore, Daffyd 's name in the series is also spelt slightly differently from the real Welsh name Dafydd.

Originally, Daffyd, the only gay in the village, was to look very different. "We were going to have him as a gay man in a white T-shirt, bomber jacket and a pair of Levi 501s - but he looked too old- fashioned, and so we went down the route of putting him in more clubby type gear," reveals Walliams.

Little Britain cemented its status as one of the UK's favourite programmes in 2005, winning two prizes at the Bafta TV Awards - one for Best Comedy Series and Best Comedy Performance for Lucas and Walliams.

The font used for the title 'Little Britain' is 'FF Dot Matrix'.

Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen) was script editor for Series 2.
 

Locations:

Darkley Noone

Vicky Pollard

10 Downing Street

Prime Minister Michael and Sebastian

Old Haven

Eddie "Emily" Howard, Florence and Vic

Herby (Northwestshire)

Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin

Troby

Kenny Craig

Sneddy

Dennis Waterman and Jeremy Rent

Llanddewi-Brefi (Wales)

Daffyd Thomas