Saxondale (2006)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 13 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former rock tour roadie with a short temper runs a pest control business in a quiet English town. He deals with his girlfriend, a naive young assistant, and the small absurdities of suburban life.

comedicdry-wittedlightheartedquirkysuburbanmidlife-crisisgrumpygentle

What happens

Saxondale is a British sitcom, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage and depicts middle-class suburban life. Produced by Baby Cow Productions, the programme's first series was broadcast on BBC Two from 19 June 2006. It features Coogan as Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business. Other principal characters include Saxondale's Welsh girlfriend Magz (Ruth Jones), and his naïve assistant, Raymond (Rasmus Hardiker). Morwenna Banks, Mark Williams, Greg Davies, Ben Miller (who script-edited the series and directed the first episode) and Liza Tarbuck also appear. Comedian Matt Berry composed the incidental music for the series and appeared in Tommy's therapy class as a yuppie-like character in two episodes of the second series. BBC America began airing Saxondale in November 2006. According to a BBC press release, over the course of the series Saxondale "gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute, almost befriends a celebrity, kneecaps an annoying hippie... and experiments with women's makeup." Coogan describes his character as "genuinely witty, while still being a bit of a dick". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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