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