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12/11/1998 Comedy 0h 30m
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Overview

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.

Top billed cast

  1. Maxine Peake

    Twinkle

  2. Thelma Barlow

    Dolly Bellfield

  3. Anne Reid

    Jean

  4. Shobna Gulati

    Anita

  5. Duncan Preston

    Stan Meadowcroft

  6. Victoria Wood

    Brenda

  7. Celia Imrie

    Philippa Moorcroft

  8. Andrew Dunn

    Tony Martin

  9. Sue Devaney

    Jane

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Full Cast & Crew

Current Season

Season 2

 1999 | 10 Episodes

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn
Written by Peter McGinn on 2020-09-27
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-obsessed version of itself in the late 90s. It was great to see Anne Read and Thelma Barlow again after they left Corrie. I read that many more actors and actresses from the Street played on this show, ...read the rest
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
dinnerladies

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