Catherine Tate's Nan
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2014 - 2015
- 3 episodes (1 series)
Catherine Tate stars as Nan in a BBC sitcom featuring her sweary old grandmother character. Also features Mathew Horne, Niky Wardley and Richard Sandling.
Episode menu
2015 Specials - Knees Up Wilmott-Brown
Further details
When the freehold on Nan's block of flats in London's newly fashionable East End is bought up by some ruthless property developers, all the residents join together to fight for their survival. All except Nan, that is, who, having bought her own flat in the 1980s, finds herself holding a unique position of power over the developers and their oily representative, the unfortunate Charles Wilmott.
Evan Davis
In this episode, Joannie Taylor finds herself centre stage in the Newsnight studio facing a grilling from presenter Evan Davis.
Evan is of course no stranger to awkward interviewees, but Nan was almost too much even for a man of his considerable experience. He said of his meeting with the irrepressible pensioner: "I always think a dream edition of Newsnight is one which is unpredictable, occasionally uncontrolled and in which the guests really speak their minds. But strangely, while Nan delivered all these qualities, I'm not dreaming of interviewing her again soon".
Some months after their explosive confrontation he adds: "I think I've recovered now".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 30th December 2015
- Time
- 10:25pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 35 minutes
- Recorded
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- Friday 19th June 2015 at The London Studios
Cast & crew
| Catherine Tate | Nan |
| Mathew Horne | Jamie |
| Adam James | Charles Wilmott |
| Niky Wardley | Lorna |
| Joan Hodges | Peggy |
| Michael Phong Le | Trong Tri |
| Evan Davis | Self |
| Catherine Tate | Writer |
| Brett Goldstein | Writer |
| Dan Swimer | Writer |
| Geoff Posner | Director |
| Sophie Clarke-Jervoise | Executive Producer |
| Catherine Tate | Executive Producer |
| Pete Thornton | Producer |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| Howard Goodall | Composer |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Philip Pope | Composer |
Video
Nan supports the Tenants' Association
Nan decides the tenants in her tower block need her help, whether they want it or not.
Featuring: Catherine Tate (Nan), Mathew Horne (Jamie) & Niky Wardley (Lorna).
Press
Radio Times review
Hard times on Nan's estate: developers are circling, trying to evict tenants or buy off the luckier residents who, like Nan, own their flat. When the corporate vultures' oily representative Charles Willmott (Adam James) says she can make a bit of cash, she immediately moves to the dark side: "We're bringing in a new breed of residents. The fashionistas. Russian oligarchs. Frank Lampard."
But Nan and "Wilmott-Brown" are, of course, destined to fall out. It's so much more satisfying to see Catherine Tate's creation turn her ire on someone who deserves it: that, and a riotous scene where Nan farts luxuriously on live television, compensate for some gratuitously offensive jokes.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 23rd December 2015