Sitcom: What It Is, How It Works

By R.F. Taflinger from 1996. Taflinger's examples are US comedies but the same analysis can be applied to UK ones.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitexam.html

Taflinger's main page for sitcoms
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html