- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
This is more like it. After a shaky, tenuous, trying-a-bit-too-hard start last week, the Stockport comedy about a bunch of hapless lads hits its stride tonight. Suddenly, the likeable, daft ensemble comes into its own. There’s a real collective chemistry between the four male leads: when they wind each other up or get competitive about tiny things, we can believe they’ve been mates since for ever. The reaction tonight when Hodge (Lee Boardman — milking every comic drop from his lines) turns up for a night’s drinking in a loud yellow cardigan foisted on him by his wife feels spot on. And there are proper, splutteringly funny moments as the evening degenerates via alcohol, a string of sausages and Glyn’s new boss Mad Tony. Once again Hodge’s well-meaning but hopeless instincts land him in his wife’s bad books. She’s got a whole library.
About this programme
2/6. The lads try to cheer Daz up after he has yet another row with his girlfriend Colleen, but it has a detrimental effect on Glyn's first day in his new job for local gangster Mad Tony. Hodge's questionable fashion choice inadvertently lands the friends in a spot of bother. Comedy, starring Lee Boardman, William Ash, Craig Parkinson and Stephen Walters.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Beggsy
- William Ash
- Hodge
- Lee Boardman
- Glyn
- Craig Parkinson
- Daz
- Stephen Walters
- Kath
- Rebekah Staton
- Colleen
- Naomi Bentley
- Julie
- Christine Bottomley
- Warren
- Ricky Tomlinson
- Mrs B
- Susie Blake
- Mrs Walsh
- Margaret Jackman
- Beryl
- Esther Coles
- Zoe
- Daisy Beaumont
- Donna
- Mikyla Dodd
- Mitch
- Colin Hoult
- Tony
- Connor McIntyre
- Mick
- Nico Tatorowicz
- Angry man
- Steve Money
- Angry mans son
- Thomas Godfrey
- Kid 1
- Lee Abate
- Kid 2
- Danny Kerr
Crew
- Director
- Elliot Hegarty
- Executive Producer
- Jimmy Mulville
- Executive Producer
- Paul Schlesinger
- Executive Producer
- Mark Bussell
- Executive Producer
- Justin Sbresni
- Producer
- Pat Lees
- Producer
- Angela Sinden
- Writer
- Mark Bussell
- Writer
- Justin Sbresni
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