Victoria Wood (1989)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Victoria Wood plays a fictional version of herself in these six one-off sitcom episodes. Each story involves her character navigating everyday situations where her career as a TV comedian sometimes comes up. The tone is understated and built around character interactions and subtle jokes.

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What happens

Victoria Wood (retitled Victoria Wood Presents from 2007 for its DVD release) is a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her successful sketch series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV. Wood appeared as a fictionalised version of herself in all six episodes; she was generally identified only as "Victoria", but in the first episode was also addressed as "Miss Wood". Her real-life career was occasionally a plot point: in "The Library", it was said that she "worked in TV", and in Over To Pam characters recognised her as a comedian, though two confused her with Dawn French. Most notably, in the final episode, Staying In, she was taken to a party to perform as a stand-up comedian. Her character sometimes broke the fourth wall of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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