Nighty Night - BBC3 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC Three
2004 - 2005
12 episodes (2 series)

Julia Davis plays a monstrously self-involved beautician whose husband is dying of cancer. Also features Angus Deayton, Rebecca Front, Ruth Jones, Mark Gatiss, Felicity Montagu and more.

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Nighty Night. Image shows from L to R: Don Cole (Angus Deayton), Cath Cole (Rebecca Front), Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2004 - 2005

Channel

BBC Three

Episodes

12 (2 series)

Stars

Julia Davis, Angus Deayton, Rebecca Front, Ruth Jones, Mark Gatiss, Felicity Montagu, Kevin Eldon, Kitty Fitzgerald and more

Writers

Julia Davis, Jane Stanness, Mark Gatiss and Ruth Jones

Directors

Tony Dow and Dewi Humphreys

Producers

Ted Dowd, Alison MacPhail, Mark Freeland, Henry Normal, Steve Coogan and Kerry Waddell

Company

Baby Cow Productions

Jill is a monstrously self-involved beautician whose husband, Terry, is dying of cancer. Her reaction to such terrible news is to tell everyone that Terry has died and pursue her neighbour, Don, a doctor whose wife is suffering from MS.

She commits mass-murder at the end of Series 1 but successfully frames a man called Glen for all the murders.

In Series 2, Glen is being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure in Bettle Lodge - an institution for the mentally insane. Meanwhile Jill is planning to move on with her life, but first she must visit Glen and relieve him of the burden of his chip and pin number.

However, Jill's one objective remains in Series 2 - to find Don and make him hers. She drugs and kidnaps Linda, hooks her caravan to her bright pink jeep and sets off to north Cornwall, where Cath and Don are currently working through their marital problems at the Trees Therapy Centre.