Beautiful People

Cast

Olivia Colman
Meera Syal
Aidan McArdle
Layton Williams
Samuel Barnett
Luke Ward-Wilkinson
Brenda Fricker
Frances Barber

"Simon's tale of clawing his way out of the surburban suffocation of Reading to the manicured marvels of Manhattan is hilarious" - Hilary Alexander (The Daily Telegraph)

Synopsis

It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric.

Mum Debbie (played by Olivia Colman) is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen.

Then there's family lodger blind Aunty Hayley (Meera Syal) and lobotomised grandma Narg (gran backwards) who lost God and found a foul mouth.

Based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan, the sitcom follows his childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the Beautiful People - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.

Reviews

"At last : a childhood memoir that's about coming to terms with fabulousness rather than incest or binge drinking" - Graydon Carter, editor of VANITY FAIR

Technical Information
Released date	November 3rd, 2008
Opening Venue
Opening Venue tel.
Aspect Ratio
Main Soundtrack	Dolby Digital Stereo
Language	English
Subtitles
Region Code	2 (Europe, Japan, South Africa)
Disc Format	PAL
Duration	180 minutes

United Kingdom/2008/Colour

Additional Information

Beautiful People is 6 x 30-minute episodes commissioned by Controller of BBC Two Roly Keating, and Lucy Lumsden, Controller of Comedy Commissioning. The series' executive producer is Jon Plowman (Absolutely Fabulous) and it is produced by Justin Davies.