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December 24th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Matt Lucas and David Walliams return to BBC One in a brand-new comedy series. After watching this mock documentary, viewers’ opinions of airports and the people who work there will never be the same again… The BBC’s cameras have been given unprecedented access to one of Britain’s busiest airport terminals. For months, the producers have followed anyone and everyone to produce this portrait of life at the cutting edge of aviation. From check-in staff to cabin crew, from pilots to paparazzi, and from low-cost airline owners to their passengers, all human life is here – and all played by Lucas and Walliams. This week, 92-year-old Hetty Wolf takes her first-ever flight with Great British Air; husband and wife pilots Simon and Jackie sort out their marriage at 35,000 feet above Sweden; and Omar Baba, owner of low-cost carrier FlyLo, is forced to do something about the lack of life-jackets on his planes. Meanwhile, Omar’s most junior employee...

December 18th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Holiday-makers at a London airport could be forgiven for thinking that a new airline has been set up to rival some of the UK’s favourite budget airlines, as two glamorous check-in “girls” start checking in passengers at the FlyLo desks, dressed in their bright blue uniforms and sitting near advertising boards adorned by the airline’s smiley-faced owner, Omar Baba. But easyJet and Ryanair need not worry. The glamorous “girls” are, in fact, comedy geniuses David Walliams and Matt Lucas, whose new series lands on BBC One on Christmas Day. As memories of Little Britain catchphrases such as: “Yeah but no but yeah…”, “I’m a laydee” and “I’m the only gay in the village” begin to fade and are consigned to the place we call TV gold, David and Matt return with their brand-new, much-anticipated series, Come Fly With Me. Set in an airport and following the lives of the people who hold it all together – including airline owners, check-in staff, fast...