Hold The Sunset
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2018 - 2019
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Alison Steadman, John Cleese and Jason Watkins star in this sitcom as a widow, her boyfriend, and her adult son who has moved back home. Also features Rosie Cavaliero, Joanna Scanlan, Anne Reid, James Cosmo, Peter Egan and more.
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Series 2, Episode 1 - The Sale
Further details
With Edith and Phil's sunset retirement waiting on the sale of the house, Phil begins to despair of it ever selling.
Queenie talks him into holding an Open Day - but she has ulterior motives.
Edith is heartened to find that her son Roger is earning some sort of a living - even if it's only busking with her old flame Bob the Burglar and performing a ventriloquist act with his toy crocodile Methuselah.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 2nd August 2019
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Alison Steadman | Edith |
| John Cleese | Phil |
| Jason Watkins | Roger |
| Rosie Cavaliero | Wendy Stevens |
| Joanna Scanlan | Sandra |
| Anne Reid | Queenie Gale |
| James Cosmo | Bob |
| Peter Egan | Jack Dugdale |
| Christian Brassington | Roland Percy |
| Red Richardson | Policeman |
| David Cann | Counsellor |
| Charlotte Eaton | Vanessa |
| Sarah Flind | Vicky |
| Josephine Melville | Rebecca |
| Richard Sandling | Norman |
| Kate Robbins | Mrs Brown |
| Damian Samuels | Mr Brown |
| Phil Nice | Mr Black |
| Candida Gubbins | Mrs Black |
| Charles McKeown | Writer |
| Sandy Johnson | Director |
| Moira Williams | Producer |
| Humphrey Barclay | Producer |
| Chris Sussman | Executive Producer |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| David Hitchcock | Production Designer |
| Kevin Riddle | Casting Director |
| June Nevin | Costume Designer |
| Trevelyan Oliver | Director of Photography |
| Nichola Bellamy | Make-up Designer |
| Theo Vidgen | Composer |
| Nick Gorman | 1st Assistant Director |
| Gregor Sharp | Commissioning Editor |
Press
With its superstar cast and older target audience, you might expect this sitcom to be smoothly executed. Instead, it is wilfully erratic, veering between wacky oddness and gentle, joke-free patter. Series two opens with grumpy Phil (John Cleese) making a hash of selling his house.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 2nd August 2019Hold The Sunset makes Mrs Brown look like a masterpiece
Retiree romcom Hold The Sunset (BBC One) returned for a second series but I rather wish it had sailed off into its titular twilight. Instead, almost in the words of The Honeycombs' best-known song, it came right back and I just can't bear it.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 2nd August 2019