Monday, October 14, 2013

Nice Work + Tears Before Bedtime

2 drama mini-series from the past.

Nice Work starring Warren Clarke (he's been at it for 50 years - too many major credits to list) and Haydn Gwynne (Drop The Dead Donkey, Peak Practice). 
"Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view."
Nice Work

Tears Before Bedtime starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey, Distant Shores, Outnumbered), Peter Howitt (Bread, Coasting, How We Used To Live), Adrian Rawlins (Soldier Soldier, She's Out, Mayday, Prisoner's Wives and all the Harry Potter films), Lesley Manville (Mayday, The Cazalets, Cranford, Holding On, Ain't Misbehavin', Goggle Eyes, Soldier Soldier), Jessica Hynes when she was still Jessica Stevenson (Asylum, Spaced, Bob and Rose, According To Bex, The Royle Family, Twenty Twelve, Up The Women) and a bunch of other people.
"Not to be confused with the British sitcom of the same name, the dramatic BBC1 miniseries Tears Before Bedtime focused on three married couples, each with the standard skeletons in the closet and special set of neuroses. The lives of the six protagonists were thrown into a tizzy when they decided to hire three nannies to look after their children."
Tears Before Bedtime

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