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.
Maxine Peake
Twinkle
Thelma Barlow
Dolly Bellfield
Anne Reid
Jean
Shobna Gulati
Anita
Duncan Preston
Stan Meadowcroft
Victoria Wood
Brenda
Celia Imrie
Philippa Moorcroft
Andrew Dunn
Tony Martin
6 eps
Season 1
1998
10 eps
Season 2
1999
Status
Ended
Original Language
EN
Network
BBC Two
Created By
Victoria Wood
Peter McGinn
September 27, 2020
This show was a big hit in England, and rightly so, but I don’t know if it even crossed over here to the U.S. It is a gentle series, following a group of coworkers who genuinely like each other and spend the day dealing with little problems and commenting (gossiping) on life. Four members of the cast I know well from Coronation Street, which I loved until it turned into a violent, scandal-obse...
CinemaSerf
November 21, 2024
Set in the canteen of a factory in Manchester, these two BBC series follow the day-to-day antics of it's workers. Writer and star Victoria Wood has assembled a formidable array of character actors to portray an eclectic mix of characters to ensure that there are a plethora of daft scenarios to explore across the sixteen episodes. Everyone works for the cancer-suffering "Tony" (Andrew Dunn) who has...
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