Friday Night Dinner
At 10pm on Friday the 25th February 2011, the great British nation found themselves face to face with a hairy topless man chomping his way through a ‘lovely bit of squirrel’; an overly-exciteable woman desperate for her ‘Bobble’ to meet a nice ‘female’; two boys called ‘Pissface’ and ‘Pusface’ who enjoyed poisoning each other with saltwater - and a certain neighbour who was terrified of his own dog.. Friday nights were never the same again.
Friday Night Dinner returned to Channel 4 for its sixth series on Friday Night at 10pm and attracted a massive average audience of 2.4 million viewers and a 13.7% share, making it the channel’s biggest overnight audience to a comedy series since the IT Crowd in 2007 – for both all individuals and young viewers.
Is there a sitcom at the moment with a stronger cast than Friday Night Dinner? Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter both have CVs that stretch from classic comedy to proper drama (Ritter was seriously brilliant in Chernobyl), while Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap all have comic chops coming out of their ears so to speak.
Shooting has begun on the sixth series of Friday Night Dinner.
Channel 4 has commissioned Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures to produce a sixth series of the critically-acclaimed and multi-award winning comedy, Friday Night Dinner with Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal returning as the Goodman Family, with Mark Heap as Jim.
Friday Night Dinner returns to C4 for a fifth series, and while something like People Just Do Nothing - also up to five series – is constantly lauded with praise and awards, Friday Night Dinner just seems to potter along, well-liked and well-respected without making a massive impact. That may change after the first episode of the new series, which is so wince-makingly, awkwardly funny you may have to view it from the street through the window. Even watching through your fingers behind the sofa might be too close for comfort.
Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures have been commissioned to produce a fifth series of ‘Friday Night Dinner’ for Channel 4, with Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal returning as the Goodman Family, and Mark Heap as always unannounced Jim.
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