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'''''After You've Gone''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] starring [[Nicholas Lyndhurst]], [[Celia Imrie]] and [[Dani Harmer]] that first aired in 2007. It was created by [[Fred Barron]], who also created ''[[My Family]]''. The writers include Barron, [[Ian Brown (writer)|Ian Brown]], [[Katie Douglas (writer)|Katie Douglas]], [[James Hendie]], [[Danny Robins]], [[Andrea Solomons]] and [[Dan Tetsell]]. A second eight-episode series of ''After You've Gone'' begun on [[7 September]] [[2007]].<ref name="RT">{{cite news|url=|title=Friday 7 September Listings|first=|last=|publisher=[[Radio Times]]|date=[[1 September]] [[2007]]}}</ref> A Christmas Special will also air in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/04_april/04/gone.shtml|title=After You've Gone to return to BBC One|publisher=BBC Press Office}}</ref> |
'''''After You've Gone''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] starring [[Nicholas Lyndhurst]], [[Celia Imrie]] and [[Dani Harmer]] that first aired in 2007. It was created by [[Fred Barron]], who also created ''[[My Family]]''. The writers include Barron, [[Ian Brown (writer)|Ian Brown]], [[Katie Douglas (writer)|Katie Douglas]], [[James Hendie]], [[Danny Robins]], [[Andrea Solomons]] and [[Dan Tetsell]]. A second eight-episode series of ''After You've Gone'' begun on [[7 September]] [[2007]].<ref name="RT">{{cite news|url=|title=Friday 7 September Listings|first=|last=|publisher=[[Radio Times]]|date=[[1 September]] [[2007]]}}</ref> A Christmas Special will also air in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/04_april/04/gone.shtml|title=After You've Gone to return to BBC One|publisher=BBC Press Office}}</ref> |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Fred Barron |
Starring | Nicholas Lyndhurst Celia Imrie Dani Harmer Ryan Sampson |
Country of origin | ![]() |
No. of episodes | 10 (as of 21 September 2007) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 12 January 2007 – present |
- For the 1918 jazz standard, see After You've Gone (song)
After You've Gone is a British sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie and Dani Harmer that first aired in 2007. It was created by Fred Barron, who also created My Family. The writers include Barron, Ian Brown, Katie Douglas, James Hendie, Danny Robins, Andrea Solomons and Dan Tetsell. A second eight-episode series of After You've Gone begun on 7 September 2007.[1] A Christmas Special will also air in 2007.[2]
Cast
- Nicholas Lyndhurst - James "Jimmy" Venables
- Celia Imrie - Diana Neal
- Dani Harmer - Molly Venables
- Ryan Sampson - Alex Venables
- Amanda Abbington - Siobhan Casey
- Lee Oakes - Kev
- Vincent Ebrahim - Bobby
Plot
When his former wife Ann goes to the developing world to help out following a natural disaster, Jimmy Venables, a handyman, has to move back into the marital home to look after his two children, Molly and Alex. Jimmy's opinionated widowed former mother-in-law Diana Neal, a teacher, who has always disliked Jimmy, decides to move in to help him out. Fashion-obsessed Molly is an intelligent girl who sees herself as the only adult in the family, while cheerful Alex is bright but has constantly changing ideas. Jimmy has a girlfriend, Siobhan Casey, a hairdresser, who often feels he does not pay her enough attention. Jimmy's assistant is Kev, while the landlord of his local pub, The Leek and Shepherd, is the pessimistic Bobby. In Series Two, Siobhan is the barmaid at the pub. One re-occuring character is Ellie, played by Roxanne Ricketts, who is a friend of Molly's.
Episodes
Series One (2007)
Title | Airdate | Overview |
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Stuck in the Middle with You | 12 January | Ann (Samantha Spiro) decides to go to Africa for 8 weeks to help flood, so her ex-husband Jimmy agrees to move into the former marital home to look after their children. However, Diana also moves in as she has no trust in Jimmy. Jimmy gets annoyed when he discovers Ann has gone to Africa with her boss and boyfriend Dr Howard Banks, then gets a parking ticket and finally gets home to discover that Molly, who had pulled a sickie, is no where to be seen. This makes Jimmy and Diana realise that Molly and Alex need both of them. Guest starring Jocelyn Jee Esien. |
Silence of the Clams | 19 January | Jimmy lets Molly and Alex have a party, but he has to make sure that Diana doesn't find out. Siobhan suggests that he takes Diana out to a restaurant on that evening. At the restaurant, Diana sees one of her colleagues Laurence, who she has been having an affair with, with a young female, so she pretends that she and Jimmy are going out. Meanwhile, Alex turns the party into a fancy-dress party and while he has his eye on Wendy (Shana Swash), Molly fancies Josh. However, the party ends when Diana goes into the house suspecting something has happened. |
Lock Back in Anger | 26 January | When Jimmy's van is stolen, Diana insists on new locks as his keys were in the van. However, Jimmy is hesitant. When he and Siobhan go to the house to introduce her to Molly and Alex, they discover no one is in and Diana has had the locks changed. Jimmy then decides to break in via the back, but the police are called and he is taken down to the police station. Diana, Molly and Alex then have to come back from the opera to identify him, and there they meet Siobhan. |
Ripped Off | 2 February | Diana has lost the school timetables she had drawn up for the whole year and is frantically trying to redo them. When Jimmy gives her a second-hand laptop he has bought from Kev, she plans the timetables on it. However, Jimmy soon has to get rid of the laptop because the person who Kev got it from wants it back, so Diana loses all the information again. Meanwhile, Siobhan persuades Jimmy to allow her to practise her waxing skills on him and Alex wants a pair of terrapins. |
School of Hard Knocks | 9 February | When Jimmy says to Diana he will make an arch in his house, he has to cancel his weekend in Brighton with Siobhan, but discovers she had made other plans as she knew he would cancel. Jimmy then constructs the arch with Alex's help, in an attempt to teach him to stick at things, after he gets a letter from Alex's school telling him he has potential but no attention span. Meanwhile, Diana tries to make Molly throw away a t-shirt that says "Slut Queen". |
Let's get Quizzical | 16 February | Jimmy and Kev lose for the tenth consecutive time in the pub quiz to Siobhan and her two friends. The next week Jimmy gets Diana to join his quiz team. They win after a tie-break question against Siobhan's team. However, when Diana later discovers her answer was wrong she goes to give the money back to Bobby at the pub. There she and Siobhan start talking. They then get drunk and spend the whole evening chatting to each other. Jimmy is annoyed by this and the following day he tries to stop them being friends, but ends up insulting Siobhan. |
Out of Africa | 23 February | Ann's partner Dr. Howard Banks (Alexander Armstrong) arrives from Africa on a brief visit to raise funds for the relief work. Jimmy instantly dislikes him, but the rest of the family like him. Howard tells Diana that he and Ann want Molly and Alex to go and live with them in Africa. Diana and Jimmy agree this can't happen, and while Jimmy is having an argument with Howard, Diana tells the children that Howard and Ann want them to live in Africa, and they both quickly dispel the idea. Meanwhile, Molly has got a job working at a chip shop but she hates it and soon wants to leave. |
Series Two (2007)
Title | Airdate | Overview |
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Web of Deceit | 7 September | Diana, Molly and Alex return from a holiday in Africa but Jimmy forgets to pick them up from the airport and they return to a dirty house and Siobhan in Jimmy's bed. Molly is annoyed with Jimmy and Diana says the reason why is on Molly's blog, which Jimmy eventually reads. When he then tells Siobhan that the reason Molly is annoyed is that she does not like Siobhan sleeping in his bed, she goes round and talks to Molly. When Molly then works out that Diana and Jimmy have been reading her blog she writes on it that she is going to a rave in Hampshire to send them on a wild goose chase. |
Rose Tattoo | 14 September | Jimmy accidentally sees Diana naked in the shower, and cannot get the image out of his mind. When Molly asks for a tattoo, Diana admits to Jimmy that was he thought was a birthmark on her leg, is in fact a tattoo of a rose she had done 30 years ago. They then decide to try reverse psychology and let Molly have the tattoo, but this does not work. However, due to her age Molly is refused a tattoo by the tattoo artist. Meanwhile, to Alex's horror a personality test says that he should become an accountant. |
Tell Tale | 21 September | Jimmy holds a poker night, at which Diana beats him after Alex tells her Jimmy's tell and makes him do a monkey impression. Diana later tells Siobhan Jimmy's tell, which she then uses to test whether he is lying to her. The following night, Alex tells Jimmy what Diana's tell is, and he uses this to discover that Diana is having a relationship with Philip, who she had said was her bridge partner. Also, Mollie gets a new outfit to impress her friends at the school photo while Alex rents a tuxedo. |
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Theme tune
The theme song is performed by Jamie Cullum.
DVD releases
The first series of After You've Gone was released on DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 24 September 2007.
References
- ^ "Friday 7 September Listings". Radio Times. 1 September 2007.
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(help) - ^ "After You've Gone to return to BBC One". BBC Press Office.
External links
- After You've Gone at BBC Online
- After You've Gone at the British Sitcom Guide