Nighty Night (2004)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rated

16

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A narcissistic hairdresser learns her husband has cancer and uses the news to manipulate a vulnerable neighbor and pursue that neighbor's husband. The show follows her selfish and destructive schemes.

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What happens

Nighty Night is a BBC black comedy television sitcom starring Julia Davis. It was first broadcast on 6 January 2004 on BBC Three. Notorious for its dark humour, the show follows narcissistic, sociopathic hairdresser Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) alongside her dim-witted assistant Linda (Ruth Jones). Jill learns that her husband Terry (Kevin Eldon) has cancer. She uses this to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), who has multiple sclerosis, and her husband Don (Angus Deayton), a doctor and the man with whom Jill becomes increasingly obsessed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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