Toast Of London
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2012 - 2015
- 19 episodes (3 series)
Sitcom starring Matt Berry as Steven Toast, an occasionally successful actor who finds himself in a series of tricky situations. Also features Robert Bathurst, Doon Mackichan, Harry Peacock, Shazad Latif, Tim Downie and Tracy-Ann Oberman
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated Sunday 12th January at 2:40am on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 177
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Series 3, Episode 5 - Man Of Sex
Further details
Toast and Ed are tasked with collecting legendary actor, and drinker, Ormond Sacker (Timothy West) from rehab. After a number of failed attempts things begin to look up when Sacker is cast alongside Toast in West End play Man of Sex.
Toast meanwhile is dating Varrity Map, a doctor of drumming, and despite his ex-wife Ellen bringing out an autobiography, he is determined to not be effected by her no doubt slanderous comments about him.
But when Varrity's rhythm starts to grow irritating and Sacker succumbs to the booze after the opening night, Toast has to deal not only with his nemesis Ray Purchase but Ray's 'even worse' twin brother.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 16th December 2015
- Time
- 10:30pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Matt Berry | Steven Toast |
| Robert Bathurst | Ed Howzer-Black |
| Doon Mackichan | Jane Plough |
| Harry Peacock | Ray Purchase |
| Shazad Latif | Clem Fandango |
| Tim Downie | Danny Bear |
| Harry Peacock | Bill Purchase |
| Pandora Colin | Jill Quear |
| Amanda Donohoe | Ellen |
| Sinead Matthews | Varrity Map |
| Timothy West | Ormond Sacker |
| Susannah Wise | Jenny Spasm |
| Matt Berry | Writer |
| Arthur Mathews | Writer |
| Hannah Mackay | Script Editor |
| Michael Cumming | Director |
| Izzy Mant | Producer |
| Andrew Newman | Executive Producer |
| Kate Daughton | Executive Producer |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| Rosy Thomas | Production Designer |
| Matt Berry | Composer |
Videos
Old Dog, Same Tricks
Ormond's sobriety is short lived.
Featuring: Matt Berry (Steven Toast), Robert Bathurst (Ed Howzer-Black) & Timothy West (Ormond Sacker).
Unhappy Purchases
Toast bumps into an old enemy.
Featuring: Matt Berry (Steven Toast), Doon Mackichan (Jane Plough) & Harry Peacock (Bill Purchase).
Press
Toast of London: series 3, episode 5 review
This episode is firing on all cylinders, some rectangular prisms, and a rhombus; reaching 'house falling down around them' heights of hilarity.
Sam Polti, On The Box, 17th December 2015Radio Times review
Our favourite booming buffoon has landed a part in a West End play called Man of Sex by Gaviscon Kerchief. Also appearing is Toast's nemesis Ray ("bloody") Purchase, and worse, Ray's albino twin Bill has turned up in London looking to make trouble. It's a perfect storm for our man, but at least he has the consolation of a new girlfriend, though the fact she's a doctor of drumming is proving troublesome.
It doesn't add up to a vintage Toast plot but there are incidental pleasures, like Timothy West in a cameo as an old-school actor with a drink problem, and Toast's opening humiliation at the voiceover studio is a new low: he's made to do sound effects.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 14th December 2015