Tracey Ullman's Show
- TV sketch show
- BBC One
- 2016 - 2017
- 12 episodes (2 series)
BBC sketch show starring character comedian and actor Tracey Ullman. Also features Tony Gardner, Elizabeth Berrington, Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Katherine Jakeways, Samantha Spiro and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4
Further details
Overthrown dictator's wife Soraya Al Amir tries to start a new, more innocent life right under the flight path in Hounslow; a working-class drama teacher is exasperated by the fact that all her students seem to be posh; and OAP sex worker Dora's failing memory causes some career hiccups.
Meanwhile, Margaret the ex-Wimbledon line judge unsuccessfully explains how to tolerate grunting in the modern game; and Angela Merkel is back in Britain for another top-level political summit.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 1st February 2016
- Time
- 10:45pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Tracey Ullman | Various |
| Samantha Spiro | Ensemble Actor |
| Aaron Neil | Ensemble Actor |
| Jason Forbes | Ensemble Actor |
| Zahra Ahmadi | Ensemble Actor |
| Jamie Demetriou | Ensemble Actor |
| Lucy Montgomery | Ensemble Actor |
| Sue Elliott-Nicholls | Ensemble Actor |
| Fiona Bruce | Self |
| Jenna Boyd | Ensemble Actor |
| Amy Dunn | Ensemble Actor |
| Rafi Essex | Ensemble Actor |
| Johnny McKeown | Ensemble Actor |
| Georgia Maskery | Ensemble Actor |
| Alex Armitage | Ensemble Actor |
| Renaee-Mya Warden | Ensemble Actor |
| Sonya Raymond | Ensemble Actor |
| Jade Ewen | Ensemble Actor |
| Kevin Cecil | Writer |
| Andy Riley | Writer |
| Georgia Pritchett | Writer |
| Lucy Montgomery | Writer |
| Jonathan Harvey | Writer |
| Jeremy Dyson | Script Editor |
| Carrie Quinlan | Writer |
| Bert Tyler-Moore | Writer |
| George Jeffrie | Writer |
| Dominic Brigstocke | Director |
| Caroline Norris | Producer |
| Tracey Ullman | Executive Producer |
| Ben Farrell | Executive Producer |
| Myfanwy Moore | Executive Producer |
| Nigel Williams | Editor |
| Miranda Jones | Production Designer |
| Richard Thomas | Composer |
| Andy Marlow | Composer |
Video
Posh kids trying to act normal
Tracey Ullman plays a drama teacher struggling to teach a bunch of posh kids.
Featuring: Tracey Ullman, Jason Forbes, Zahra Ahmadi & Jamie Demetriou.
Press
Radio Times review
Tracey Ullman's sublime Angela Merkel goes full Eurovision in a wonderful homage to Germany's 1982 winner (who can forget Nicole's Ein bißchen Frieden - which translates as A Little Peace). But this instalment seems largely designed to give her other characters a chance in the spotlight.
There's more from the mildly funny obsessive zoologist and we also meet a corrupt dictator's wife, a kind of Mrs Gadaffi-type living it up (or rather down) in Hounslow with her spoilt young son.
Sharper satire is found in a scene from a TV drama audition where a group of women compete to play largely non-speaking roles of rape or murder victims. "No jokes...best leave that to the men," one of them says. There's certainly no danger of the fab Ms U ever doing that now, is there?
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 26th January 2016