Simon Carlyle, the co-creator of hit BBC sitcom Two Doorways Down, has died aged 48.

Carlyle’s supervisor Amanda Davis confirmed the information in an announcement to PA Media.

“I’m immensely sorry to verify that Simon Carlyle has died on the age of 48,” Davis mentioned.

“Simon was a beautiful particular person and a significant comedic expertise. He was a lot revered throughout the business each for the standard of his writing and for being a form, humorous, supportive and nurturing collaborator. Our ideas and deepest sympathies go to his household, associates and colleagues.”

With Gregor Sharp, Carlyle was the co-creator of Scottish BBC sitcom Two Doorways Down, which stars the likes of Arabella Weir and Alex Norton as neighbours in a suburban avenue in Scotland, who’re “all a bit nuts,” in accordance with an interview with Carlyle a number of years in the past.

The present has been massively fashionable, working for six seasons on BBC Two and shifting just lately to BBC One, the place a seventh season is anticipated later this 12 months. Carlyle was three-times nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for Two Doorways Down and it is among the BBC’s longest-running sitcoms at the moment.

Carlyle additionally created Altering Ends, the current Alan Carr ITV sitcom in regards to the comic’s life rising up the son of a soccer supervisor. Different Carlyle credit embrace Boy Meets Lady and Psychobitches.

BBC Comedy Director Jon Petrie paid tribute to “a beautiful comedy expertise.”

“His heat comedian voice shone by way of these characters, garnering enormous viewers affection, and firmly establishing it as a long-lasting sitcom favorite,” he added.

The Two Doorways Down manufacturing staff, in the meantime, posted an announcement on X describing a “microscopic fascination with what makes humorous issues funnier.”

“We had been so fortunate to have recognized him,” they added. “He was on the centre of all of the work we made collectively and his loss shall be felt profoundly by all of us.”