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dinnerladies
Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
Seasons
- Season 1 — 6 episodes (November 12, 1998)
- Season 2 — 10 episodes (November 25, 1999)
Cast
- Maxine Peake as Twinkle
- Thelma Barlow as Dolly Bellfield
- Anne Reid as Jean
- Shobna Gulati as Anita
- Duncan Preston as Stan Meadowcroft
- Victoria Wood as Brenda
- Celia Imrie as Philippa Moorcroft
- Andrew Dunn as Tony Martin
Details
- Created by
- Victoria Wood
- First aired
- November 12, 1998
- Episodes
- 16
- Genres
- Comedy
- Network
- BBC Two
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 7.5 / 10 from 38 votes
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