Friday Night Dinner (2011-)

UK

Television Series

Creator: Robert Popper

Cast: Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird, Paul Ritter, Tom Rosenthal, Mark Heap

Each Friday evening, Adam and Jonny return to their family home for dinner with their dopey dad and long-suffering mum, a ritual often interrupted by their strange, pervy neighbour, Jim, and their own sophomoric pranks and japes, in Popper’s frequently hilarious and vaguely perceptive (if perhaps a little lightweight) family sitcom.

Series 1 (2011)

Girlfriends of debatable legitimacy, Greek blokes’ bums, collectible vs. crap, “females”, piss-yellow curtains, Bitch-Face’s Mercedes, foot-faced relatives’ weddings, and baby penises all compete for dinnertime conversation in this generally warm and very funny if hardly ground-breaking first series. Iain.Stott