Jam & Jerusalem - BBC1 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Jam & Jerusalem. Image shows from L to R: Queenie (Doreen Mantle), Hillary (Patrick Barlow), Eileen Pike (Maggie Steed), Sal Vine (Sue Johnston), Tip Haddam (Pauline McLynn), Caroline Martin (Jennifer Saunders), Rosie Bales (Dawn French). Copyright: BBC

Genres

Comedy Drama, Sitcom

Broadcast

2006 - 2009

Channel

BBC One

Episodes

16 (3 series)

Stars

Sue Johnston, Pauline McLynn, Maggie Steed, Sally Phillips, David Mitchell, Salima Saxton, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and more

Writers

Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson

Director

Mandie Fletcher

Producers

Jo Sargent, Pete Thornton, Francis Gilson, Jon Plowman and Nerys Evans

Company

Set in a small West Country village, Jam & Jerusalem follows the lives of the members of the local Women's Guild.

When her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal finds herself surrounded by the community - all offering tea and sympathy. But when her son James announces at the funeral that, as he is taking over the practice, his wife will be the village nurse, Sal finds herself not only widowed but out of a job.

As the community sympathy falls off, Sal feels neglected and alone and in a bid to stop rattling around her empty house and avoid the local Grieving Group counsellor, she decides it's time to take her own advice - stop sleeping in the dog basket, get a hair cut and a new top, take stock of her new life - and the Women's Guild is a good place to start.

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Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Music by The Kinks. The theme tune is The Village Green Preservation Society by Kate Rusby.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Friday 24th November 2006 at 9:30pm on BBC One

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