Friday, February 22, 2013

Blandings + Great Night Out + Way To Go

3 new comedies. 

Blandings, based on the Blandings Castle stories by P.G. Wodehouse, takes place in the late 1920's. Starring Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders (no - not going to list their numerous major credits - too tired) and Mark Williams (the Harry Potter films, Father Brown, The Fast Show, Grass) and Jack Farthing with guest stars such as David Walliams, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Jessica Hynes.
Blandings

Great Night Out takes place in suburban Manchester and is about a group of lifelong friends. Very solid cast on this one. William Ash (Soldier Soldier, Where The Heart Is, Burn It, Waterloo Road and in the current comedy Being Eileen), Lee Boardman (Rome, Ladies of Letters), Craig Parkinson (Massive, Whitechapel, In With The Flynns, Misfits, Line of Duty, Secret of Crickley Hall), Stephen Walters (Buried, The Visit, Good Cop), Rebekah Staton (State of Play, Tess of D'Ubervilles, No Heroics, Pulling, Home Time, Hunderby, Spy), Christine Bottomley (Early Doors, The Street, Massive, Tess of D'Ubervilles, Hope Springs, Land Girls), Naomi Bentley (Dalziel & Pascoe, Grownups, Primeval, Mutual Friends, Ideal, White Van Man, Miranda), Susie Blake (Born And Bred, Victoria Wood, Singles, A Prince Among Men, Roger Roger, Coronation Street, Parents, Mrs. Brown's Boys) and finally...Ricky Tomlinson (The Royle Family, Cracker, Playing The Field, Mike Bassett: Manager) with appearances by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Whites), Keith Allen....and so on.
Great Night Out 

Way To Go....about 3 guys who start an assisted suicide business. Starring Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners, The Increasingly Poor Decision of Todd Margaret, Bleak Old Shop of Stuff), Marc Wootton (Cyderdelic, La La Land), Laura Aikman (Teenage Kicks, Mitchell & Webb, Personal Affairs, Lemon La Vida Loca) and so on.......
Way to Go

I have no idea if any of these are returning. I watched the first two and they get the UK TV FL seal of approval.

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