‘The Other Half’
Dave Channel
August 2022
Directed by Akaash Meeda
Produced by Ranga Bee Productions

My sitcom pilot The Other Half premiered on 23rd August 2022 on Dave. Co-written with Zak Ghazi-Torbati, the script won TriForce Creative Network’s WriterSlam competition, and was produced for UKTV by Ranga Bee Productions.

Navid Dafydd Navidi is half-Welsh, half-Iranian and 100% that bitch. Like every regional, gay millennial, he tries to re- invent himself in the big city, shacked up with his best friend’s painfully privileged family. But the more he tries to keep the two halves of his life apart, the more they keep crashing into each other...

You can watch it
here on UKTVPlay.
Nominated for Debut Writer at
Edinburgh TV Festival
Nominated for Best New Sitcom & Comedy of the Year at
British Comedy Guide Awards

Press for The Other Half:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ’This one has the potential for a series’ - TV Times

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The first and best of four comedy pilots is full of hilarious characters’ - The Daily Mail

‘The comedy beats arrive thick and fast and there’s a winning confidence to it all: bring on a full series - Radio Times

‘This comedy pilot is packed full of fish-out-of-water laughs’ - The Guardian

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