Two Doors Down creator Simon Carlyle dies aged 48

The creator of BBC One drama bid Two Doors Down, Simon Carlyle, has died aged 48, his manager has confirmed.

The Scottish sitcom has starred Arabella Weir, Kieran Hodgson, Alex Norton and others, and was besides created and written by Gregor Sharp.

Carlyle from Ayr wrote the amusement arsenic a one-off peculiar successful 2013 earlier it was commissioned successful 2016.

Louise Thornton, caput of commissioning astatine BBC Scotland, said unit were "deeply saddened" to perceive the news.

She added: "Simon was a large penning talent, loved for his enactment connected Two Doors Down and galore different series.

"Our thoughts are with Simon's household and friends, and the formed and unit connected Two Doors Down."

Carlyle's manager, Amanda Davis, said helium had been known for being a "supportive and nurturing collaborator".

"I americium immensely atrocious to corroborate that Simon Carlyle has died astatine the property of 48," she said.

"Simon was a fantastic idiosyncratic and a large comedic talent. He was overmuch respected crossed the manufacture some for the prime of his penning and for being a kind, funny, supportive and nurturing collaborator."

Jon Petrie, manager of drama commissioning astatine the BBC, said Carlyle had been a fantastic drama talent.

"His lukewarm comic dependable shone done these characters, garnering immense assemblage affection, and firmly establishing it arsenic a long-lasting sitcom favourite," helium said.

Set astir the residents of Latimer Crescent, Two Doors Down was recommissioned for a seventh bid successful February.

It is acceptable to determination to BBC One for the adjacent six episodes of the caller series.

The sitcom's accumulation squad said: "We are profoundly saddened by this unspeakable news. Simon was a brilliant, funny, mercurial and magnificent quality being.

"He was astatine the centre of each the enactment we made unneurotic and his nonaccomplishment volition beryllium felt profoundly by each of us."

Carlyle besides wrote for Changing Ends, an ITV drama bid astir Alan Carr increasing up successful the 1980s, and BBC LGBT+ amusement Boy Meets Girl.