Nighty Night - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]

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Product Description ------------------- Nighty Night: The Complete Series 1 (DVD) .com ---- 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 couldn’t 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 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); From the Back Cover ------------------- 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 See more ( javascript:void(0) )