Friday Night Dinner: Series 4, Episode 1 - The Two Tonys

TV sitcom
Channel 4
2011 - 2020
37 episodes (6 series)

Channel 4 sitcom observing as twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go round to their parents' house for Friday night dinner. Stars Paul Ritter, Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Mark Heap and Tracy-Ann Oberman

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Series 4, Episode 1 - The Two Tonys

Friday Night Dinner. Image shows from L to R: Tony Michaels (Jason Watkins), Martin (Paul Ritter). Copyright: Big Talk Productions

Dad accidentally invites someone he used to hate round for dinner - an annoying man who talks with his eyes closed. How will Dad get rid of him?

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Broadcast details

Date: Friday 22^nd July 2016
Time: 10pm
Channel: Channel 4
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Paul Ritter	Martin
Tamsin Greig	Jackie
Simon Bird	Adam
Tom Rosenthal	Jonny
Mark Heap	Jim
Tracy-Ann Oberman	Val

Guest cast
Frances Cuka	Nellie (Grandma)
Jason Watkins	Tony Michaels

Writing team
Robert Popper	Writer

Production team
Martin Dennis	Director
Robert Popper	Producer
Kenton Allen	Executive Producer
Caroline Leddy	Executive Producer
Matthew Justice	Executive Producer
Pete Drinkwater	Editor
Kyz Kistell	Production Designer

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Jim's Little Bit Of Fish

Jim has a little bit of fish, and Martin has a clever plan to get rid of Tony.

Featuring: Paul Ritter (Martin), Tamsin Greig (Jackie), Simon Bird (Adam), Tom Rosenthal (Jonny), Mark Heap (Jim) & Jason Watkins (Tony Michaels).

Press

Friday Night Dinner returned; it combines slapstick with Jewish subtlety in entirely the wrong mix but sometimes, slowly, works. Jason Watkins lifted this to glory.

Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 24th July 2016

Review: Friday Night Dinner, C4

There is nothing particularly groundbreaking here. Just a lovely, well-observed, faintly farcical fast-moving storyline as one minor white lie - they claim Jackie's mother has died so that they can cancel dinner and turf Tony out - sends events spiralling out of control.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd July 2016

Robert Popper's superlatively silly comedy is peerless in the way it captures the everyday eccentricity of family life. In this fourth series opener, Goodman family patriarch Martin invites a friend over for dinner, to the rest of the family's dismay. What inevitably follows is a sequence of misunderstandings and backfiring schemes, punctuated - as ever - by umpteen infuriating visits from neighbour Jim.

Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 22nd July 2016

Friday Night Dinner is back, bambinos

Awkwardness, colossal lies and a nice bit of squirrel. Just a standard Friday Night at the Goodmans'...

Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 22nd July 2016

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