Luv
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1993 - 1994
- 18 episodes (2 series)
Carla Lane sitcom about a successful, married couple who have everything on the surface, but wife Terese, at least, remains unfulfilled. Also features Michael Angelis, Sue Johnston, Stephen Lord, Sandy Hendrickse, Russell Boulter and more.
Press clippings
Carla's decades of comedy
It's a little more than 30 years since Liverpool's most well-known comedy jewel first came to our screens.
It followed the working class Boswell family struggling through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s, painting a bleak yet concurrently warm and hopeful picture of life in one of Britain's major cities.
Aaron Brown, BBC, 4th May 2016The first series was thin on jokes and heavy on everything else - a bit like EastEnders without the jaunty title music.
Simon London, The Mirror, 10th March 1994Shakespeare reworked familiar themes with ingenuity. So did Milton. For all her proven talent, Carla Lane does not seem quite to have managed it with her new BBC1 comedy series Luv, which began last night. It could have been made 20 years ago. If Luv is supposed to be a subtle part of the 1970s revival, it is too subtle.
Joe Joseph, The Times, 10th March 1993Carla Lane's new series, Luv (BBC1) has a family resemblance to her old series, Bread. But at least it's a different script. Unlike the Boswells, a cheerful burden on the welfare state, Harold Craven (Michael Angelis) is a self-made man. His plastic plant pots seem to be doing amazingly well in the recession.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 10th March 1993