Dinnerladies - Series 1
1998
Victoria Wood's TV hit comedy about the workers in a factory canteen... Read more
| Starring | Victoria Wood, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati |
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| Director | Geoff Posner |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Dinnerladies - Series 1
Victoria Wood's TV hit comedy about the workers in a factory canteen...
| Starring | Victoria Wood, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Julie Walters, Sue Devaney |
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| Director | Geoff Posner |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 52 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Nov 2004 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Where would we be without Dinnerladies
The key to comedy is ............
timing.
When you start watching Dinnerladies you will notice it is slow but don't give up.
Victoria Wood builds up the characters in the first episodes so skillfully that you feel you have known them much longer and you cannot help but fall in love the simple characters as they go about their mundane jobs.
When this was first aired on television I did't watch it, my wife did and from just overhearing the dialogue between the central characters I was drawn closer to the screen and the almost documentary life of these wonderful dinnerladies. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
12 Rounds of toast please
This has to be the best British Sitcom shown on BBC1 in recent years.
Expertly written by Victoria Wood the script is peppered with glorious one-liners, recurring jokes and hilarious popular culture references.
The theme tune, casting and the setting all seem terribly twee, but this show has smut-a-plenty and Julie Walters provides much of the black comedy as Bren's filthy unhinged mother.
Anna Reid and Thelma Barlow make a brilliant elderly double act and Maxine Peake (Veronica in Shameless) shows pure class as the dopey Twinkle and her stunned silence in the 'Royals' episode is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV.
Victoria Wood is passable as Bren but doesn't really offer anything apart from an extension of herself and Shobna Gulathi is as annoyingly OTT in this as she was on Coronation Street.
Add to the mix fine turns 'Acorn Antiques' alumni Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie and we have a very near perfect comedy series. Luckilly they finished it after 2 series, making sure the show didn't run out of good ideas and comedic steam.
All hail Victoria Wood!! BBC commission another show written by the most talented 'British Female Comedy Writer' of our time. HRH - make her a Dame quick smart!! -
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