Mandy
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 2019 - 2024
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Diane Morgan plays a woman trying to navigate life. Also features Michelle Greenidge, Tom Basden, Michael Spicer, Mark Silcox and Alistair Green
- Christmas Special repeated Thursday 19th December at 10:10pm on BBC2
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Jobseeker
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 13th August 2020
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 15 minutes
Cast & crew
| Diane Morgan | Mandy |
| Michelle Greenidge | Lola |
| Tom Basden | Benefits Advisor |
| Michael Spicer | Chicken Shop Man |
| Mark Silcox | Line Manager |
| Alistair Green | Health and Safety Man |
| Sam Ward | Casting Director |
| Ben Caudell | Cash Maggot |
| Ninette Finch | Cash Maggot |
| Diane Morgan | Writer |
| Diane Morgan | Director |
| Sam Ward | Producer |
| Ben Caudell | Executive Producer |
| Francis Gilson | Line Producer |
| Jerry Ramsbottom | Editor |
| Polly Aspinall | Production Designer |
| Pete Rowe | Director of Photography |
| Ashley-Ann Andrews | Costume Designer |
| Frances Hounsom | Make-up Designer |
| Ellena Bleathman | Graphics |
| Beth Hiley | Graphics |
| Matt Bell | 1st Assistant Director |
| Alex Moody | Commissioning Editor |
Press
Diane Morgan's dimwitted big-dreamer is comedy tonic
I'm not sure if it's the constant gurning, shiny puffer jacket that screams "flammable" or the gravity-defying vertical hairdo, but Mandy Carter is a woman I cannot stop watching.
Sara Wallis, The Mirror, 15th August 2020Mandy, BBC2 review - Diane Morgan's new creation
When the laugh-out-loud punchline came, it really landed.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 14th August 2020Review: Mandy series 1 episodes 1 and 2
Morgan's definitely created a very funny and likeable character here, one who manages to generate chaos without it ever seeming too ludicrous, and given how many people died because of her actions that's quite the thing.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 14th August 2020Mandy review
Surely the funniest thing since the end of the world began.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 14th August 2020Diane Morgan's new comedy vehicle is Mandy, an amusingly truculent grifter seeking work in the gig economy. Face stuck in a lopsided, permanently sullen gurn, she is packed off to work in a banana-processing factory. Cue an inspired, fantastically tasteless musical sequence during which many tarantulas rhythmically meet their maker in time to Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song. However, an unfortunate mishap involving 17 deaths soon means she is back to square one. A pleasingly sour confection.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 13th August 2020Mandy review: new comedy is fine in small doses
A mordant stare from Morgan can do the work of 20 pages of script, so a show of her own has been long overdue.
Fiona Sturges, The Independent, 13th August 2020Mandy review
Diane Morgan is the writer and star of this new comedy about a hapless, jobless heroine whose daft adventures always end in calamity - if not arson.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 13th August 2020