Monday Monday
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 2009
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy drama about a group of workers at the head office of a supermarket chain who rise to the challenge of relocating to Leeds. Stars Fay Ripley, Morven Christie, Holly Aird, Neil Stuke, Peter Wight and more.
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I don't know. You wait years for a dismally unfunny, fatuous series about personal assistants, then two come along at once. Monday Monday joins the witless pantheon (alongside BBC3's Personal Affairs) and stars Fay Ripley as the inept, alcoholic head of human resources whose secretary does all the work. I think we are meant to find the whole idea of human resources intrinsically absolutely hilarious, but we've got to be given something to laugh at. Ripley's character sleeping off a hangover in her car is not, in itself, funny. The cast is good, but ill-served, particularly Holly Aird as a tough new boss who's having an affair with her empty bimbo of a male secretary. The dialogue is pitiful - any series that makes an off-colour gag based on the word "stuffing" deserves to go back to the 1970s where it belongs.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 13th July 2009The ratings for this new series will not be great, let's face it - and that's only in part to having to compete with The Street. This comedy drama set in a supermarket head office's HR department wi... oh, sorry, I must have dozed off. Fay Ripley stars as the alcoholic department boss, apparently. Backed up by a cast including Holly Aird, Neil Stuke and Miranda Hart, I can only hope that the show is better than all the pre-publicity suggests.
Scott Matthewman, The Stage, 13th July 2009Interview: Jenny Agutter
The actress tells The Telegraph about her surprising Soho fan club and Monday Monday, the new comedy drama she is starring in.
Serena Davies, The Telegraph, 8th July 2009