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Beautiful People Details

2008

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Starring	Meera Syal, Olivia Colman, Aidan McArdle, Layton Williams
Genres	Drama, Television

Beautiful People

It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric. Mum Debbie (played by Olivia Colman) is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen. Then there's family lodger blind Aunty Hayley (Meera Syal) and lobotomised grandma Narg (gran backwards) who lost God and found a foul mouth.

Based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan, the sitcom follows his childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the Beautiful People - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.

Starring	Meera Syal, Olivia Colman, Aidan McArdle, Layton Williams, Samuel Barnett, Luke Ward-Wilkinson
Studio	2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 3 hrs
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Television
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Released	Production year: 2008 To Rent: DVD: 03 Nov 2008

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  If Carlsberg made tv shows............
  
  God where do i start with this one, its possibly the best damn thing ever shown on TV!!! The character are fantastic, its possibly the gayest programme ever, ... read more »
  
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  A bit boring!
  
  This series was not really my cup of tea. I found it slow to get in to and a bit boring. It made me chuckle once or twice but tbh I didn't finish watching ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Sep 2010 at 19:57
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  Really funny.
  
  British comedy at its best. I recently moved to this country and saw an episode of Beautiful People in a BA flight going to America. I thought it was brilliant... read more »
  
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  - 25 Sep 2010 at 13:37
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  Surprisingly insanely weird!
  
  I never had a chance to watch this show on BBC last year and I didnt expect much...
  
  but I got pleasantly surprised, this is not like one of those ... read more »
  
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  It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric. Mum Debbie (played by Olivia Colman) is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine ...