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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dinnerladies (stylised as dinnerladies) was a British sitcom written, co-produced by and starring Victoria Wood. It ran on BBC One for 16 episodes from 1998 to 2000. The show is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester, featuring the caterers and regular customers as the main characters. The inner lives and social interactions of the mostly female, mostly middle-aged characters are vividly and amusingly depicted. As with much of Victoria Wood's work, there is also a counterpoint of sadder themes, including deaths in the families of two of the main characters, a painful divorce, one of the characters living with cancer, one character becoming a single parent, and a long-running on-off relationship involving a great deal of heartache for the pair involved. Involving only one set throughout its run (with the exception of a quiz show set and hospital set both seen only on a television screen in the last two episodes), Dinnerladies was entirely filmed at BBC Television Centre in front of a live studio audience. Other locations such as characters' homes and other parts of the factory are only referred to in conversation. Extreme care was taken by Victoria Wood to ensure that the set and all catering procedures were as realistic as possible, noting that to do otherwise would detract from the realism and agitate those "who are in the trade". The jokes are generally delivered at a fast pace with dialogue usually only pausing to allow the audience's laughter to settle. Akin to the production of US sitcoms, each episode was filmed twice in front of two separate audiences, once on a Friday and again on a Saturday. This gave cast members two attempts to perfect a scene and, if necessary, the opportunity to correct mi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=55876


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156177563
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156177561
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Dinnerladies
  • Width: 229 mm


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