Gimme Gimme Gimme - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Gimme Gimme Gimme. Image shows from L to R: Tom (James Dreyfus), Linda (Kathy Burke). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1999 - 2001

Channels

BBC One, BBC Two

Episodes

19 (3 series), plus 1 Comic Relief special

Stars

Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Rosalind Knight, Beth Goddard and Brian Bovell

Writer

Jonathan Harvey

Directors

Liddy Oldroyd and Tristram Shapeero

Producers

Sue Vertue, Matthew Francis, Jon Plowman, Mark Chapman and Peter Bennett-Jones

Company

Meet north London flatmates Tom and Linda. He's gay and she's straight, but each are as boorish, obnoxious and repulsive as the other.

Tom's a rubbish actor with few credits to his name but an ego to rival any Hollywood starlet. Linda, a receptionist at a media company, would be a slag if she could find a single man remotely interested in going near her.

This eternal odd couple rent a shabby, poorly decorated flat with their pooled meagre earnings whilst getting drunk, living their own individual and intertwined existences, comforting each other throughout their many delusion-induced failures, and chasing some of the capital's unluckiest men.

Meanwhile, the flat downstairs at 69 Paradise Passage is home to the sickeningly sweet in-love mixed race couple Jez and Suze - but they too have a slightly darker side. Upstairs is elderly landlady Beryl, a former prostitute who might've given up the game but has certainly not settled down for an innocent retirement...

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Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

The theme tune is a cover of ABBA's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), performed by Kathy Burke and James Drefus.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Friday 8th January 1999 at 9pm on BBC Two

Most recent repeats

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