Product Description
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Nighty Night: The Complete Series 1 (DVD)
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Some turn to y movies for squirms, others to comedy. For the
latter, the BBC's Nighty Night packs more squirms into a single
episode than an entire season of The Office or Curb Your
Enthusiasm. Combined. In other words, this blacker-than-black
Britcom is so dark it could almost qualify as horror. Simply put,
Jill Tyrell (writer/creator Julia Davis, Wilbur Wants to Kill
Himself) is the hairdresser from hell. She may lack the horns and
the forked tail, but her approach to life couldnt be more
demonic. The vicious fun begins when preternaturally passive
hubbie Terry (Kevin Eldon) is diagnosed with cancer--a malignant
brain tumor, no less. After he's hustled off to the hospital for
, Jill tells everyone in town, including compassionate
vicar Gordon Forks (Michael Fenton Stevens), that Terry has died
and drops by the local dating agency to find a suitable
replacement. Meanwhile, the ever-optimistic Cath Cole (Rebecca
Front), who has MS, moves in next door. Upon meeting Cath's
selfish spouse, Don (Angus Deayton, One Foot in the Grave), Jill
decides he's the one. Her seduction plan begins by using Cath to
get to him. When Don, who favors more pneumatic types--like the
vicar's wife, Sue (Felicity Montagu)--proves resistant to her
charms, Jill sets her s on their teenaged son. Produced by
Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People), Nighty Night premiered in
the US on the Oxygen Channel. Although there are only six
episodes in the first series, the terrifying Mrs. Tyrell wreaks
an admirable a of havoc in each, culminating in one of the
most hilariously squirm-inducing season finales in the Beeb's
storied history. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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From the Back Cover
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Julia has worked with some of the biggest names in comedy from
Steve Coogan to Chris Morris. She won the 2001 Royal Television
Society Award for Best Television Actress and a BANFF award for
co-writing and starring in the critically accled comedy series
Human Remains with Rob Brydon. Julia started out doing improvised
comedy in Bath and Bristol with actors such as Rob Brydon and
Ruth Jones and then began writing and performing sketches for
Radio 4 with Arabella Weir and Meera Syal. After sending a tape
of her characters to Steve Coogan, she worked with him and Simon
Pegg, touring with Steve's live show for eight months. She then
went on to do Big Train, Chris Morris's Blue Jam radio series and
Jam. Her other credits include People Like Us and Annie Griffin's
Coming Soon.
Julia was nominated for the 2003 Bodil Award for Best Supporting
Actress in Lone Scherfig's dogma-based film Wilbur Wants to Kill
Himself. Her other film work includes Shaun of the Dead, The Sex
Lives of the Potato Men (with Mark Gatiss) and Richard Curtis's
Love Actually. Julia found working and improvising with Rob
Brydon on Human Remains much more fun than writing Nighty Night
alone. She prefers acting to writing but found on Nighty Night
she was so obsessed with all aspects of the production it was
hard to focus on her own performance.
CREDITS:
Film
Love Actually
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Television
Alan Clark Diaries
I'm Alan Partridge
Trom
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Human Remains
Jam
People Like Us
Big Train
Comedy Nation
Theatre
Steve Coogan The Man Who Thinks He's It
Jackpot
Me Me Me
Sisters
More Fool Us
Instant Wit
The Sister of Percy
Radio
The Very World of Milton Jones
Blue Jam Series 1-3
Five Squeezy Pieces
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