Friday Night Dinner - C4 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Friday Night Dinner. Image shows from L to R: Martin (Paul Ritter), Jonny (Tom Rosenthal), Adam (Simon Bird), Jackie (Tamsin Greig). Copyright: Popper Pictures / Big Talk Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2011 - 2020

Channel

Channel 4

Episodes

37 (6 series)

Stars

Paul Ritter, Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Mark Heap and Tracy-Ann Oberman

Writer

Robert Popper

Directors

Steve Bendelack and Martin Dennis

Producers

Robert Popper, Kenton Allen, Nira Park, Caroline Leddy and Matthew Justice

Companies

Every Friday night, twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny Goodman return to their parents' home for dinner.

Adam and Jonny think of the weekly event as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with Mum and Dad. It's not that Mum and Dad aren't wonderful. They really are. But Dad slugs ketchup straight from the bottle, Mum is obsessed with Masterchef and even Grandma likes to wear her new bikini around the house.

As for the next generation, there is much consternation that Jonny's girlfriend, Alison, is nothing less than 'made-up' and not even the Internet can sort out a "female" for Adam. Maybe this is because Adam writes jingles for toilet roll adverts, and Jonny's favourite party trick is to jump out of bin-liners onto unsuspecting victims. Of course every family has its foibles, its rituals and its eccentricities. It's just that the Goodmans have made something of an art form of theirs...

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Camera set-up

Single camera

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Soundtrack

Theme music is the 'Punks Jump Up' remix of Animal by Miike Snow.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Friday 25th February 2011 at 10pm on Channel 4

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