I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.