Friday Night Dinner
- 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
Streaming rank this week: 287
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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 2016Robert 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 2016Friday 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 2016Radio Times launches a poll to name the best sitcom since 2000
Radio Times has launched a poll to name the best British TV sitcom broadcast since the year 2000. There are 40 shows in the shortlist.
British Comedy Guide, 19th July 2016Friday Night Dinner to run for eight series?
Simon Bird has told Digital Spy that he thinks the cast and writer Robert Popper could "do the same again". "There's no reason why we couldn't," he said. "I could imagine there being series eight, or series nine, but we'll have to wait and see."
Morgan Jeffrey, Digital Spy, 19th July 2016Tamsin Greig on the new series of Friday Night Dinner
"You step over the threshold of your parents' home and you're instantly transported back to your childhood," muses the 50-year-old actress. "Jackie is pushed around by her children because she has an overwhelming need to be wanted by her two sons."
Vicki Power, The Daily Express, 16th July 2016Simon Bird & Tom Rosenthal interview
TV Choice caught up with Simon and Tom, who play squabbling siblings Adam and Jonny, at Channel 4 HQ over coffee and very nice pastries...
TV Choice, 12th July 2016Friday Night Dinner, Season 3 review
For a show where every episode is pretty much the same (and I don't mean that in a bad way), this is the first season where we start to see a hint of a story arch.
Anglonerd, 8th June 2015Friday Night Dinner... with Friday Night Dinner!
Fiona Leckerman joins the creator and cast of the hit TV series for lokshen and laughter at JW3.
Fiona Leckerman, Jewish News, 4th June 2015Channel 4 orders Series 4 of Friday Night Dinner
Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Friday Night Dinner, its award-winning sitcom starring Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Paul Ritter, Tamsin Greig and Mark Heap.
British Comedy Guide, 17th April 2015