BBC Two's acting controller of comedy commissioning Cheryl Taylor, and controller of BBC Two Roly Keating, have re-commissioned Lead Balloon for a second series. The Open Mike production, which stars ...

Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen ...

Tonight, Spleen appears on a quiz show as a guest celebrity and manages to talk a contestant out of winning a car. As usual it's Rick's hopeless attempts to lie and wriggle his way out of disaster ...