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dinnerladies (1998)

First aired November 12, 199830m/ep2 seasons · 16 epsEnded
7.4

33 votes

Comedy
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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.

Created By

Victoria Wood

Top Billed Cast

Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Twinkle

Thelma Barlow

Thelma Barlow

Dolly Bellfield

Anne Reid

Anne Reid

Jean

Shobna Gulati

Shobna Gulati

Anita

Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston

Stan Meadowcroft

Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood

Brenda

Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie

Philippa Moorcroft

Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn

Tony Martin

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Scripted

Last Air Date

January 27, 2000

Networks

BBC Two

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User Reviews

Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

9.0

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, so…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

8.0

Set in the canteen of a factory in Manchester, these two BBC series follow the day-to-day antics of it's workers. Writer and star Victoria Wood has assembled a formidable array of character actors to portray an eclectic mix of characters to ensure that there are a plethora of daft scenarios to explore across the sixteen episodes. Everyone works for the cancer-suffering "Tony" (Andrew Dunn) who has a bit of a crush on supervisor "Brenda" (Wood). Then there are best pals "Dolly" (Thelma Barlow) and "Jean" (Anne Reid); dander-wielding handyman "Stan" (Duncan Preston) and then the two youngsters -…

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