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British Tv set sitcom (BBC, 2004–06)

The Worst Week of My Life
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Starring	Sarah Alexander Ben Miller Alison Steadman Geoffrey Whitehead
Country of origin	U.k.
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	17
Production
Executive producers	Cheryl Tayor Mark Freeland
Producer	Hat Play a trick on Productions
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC One
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original release	12 March 2004 (2004-03-12) – 22 December 2006 (2006-12-22)

The Worst Week of My Life is a British television sitcom, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second serial was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006. Information technology was written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni.

Plotline [edit]

Series one [edit]

Essentially a comedy of errors, The Worst Calendar week of My Life follows the premise that "anything that can go incorrect, will go incorrect". The story covers the week preceding the marriage of publishing executive Howard Steel and his fiancée Mel, the daughter of a high-courtroom judge, Dick Cook. Humiliating situations ensue: Cassie, a colleague with whom Howard had a drunken one-night stand two years earlier, sets out to snare him and becomes obsessive; Howard accidentally kills his in-laws' dog, puts Mel's granny in hospital and loses the nuptials ring (a family heirloom). At the end of the first series, Howard and Mel were wed, despite the many mishaps that had befallen the well-meaning merely accident-decumbent groom.

Series ii [edit]

The 2nd series takes place in the week leading up to the nativity of Howard and Mel'southward first baby, and Howard has non yet shaken off the fate inexorably attached to him. With his father blowing upward granny's cottage, into which the married couple was preparing to move, they are forced to stay with his wife's parents once more. During the grade of the week he is accused of sexual harassment at work, and mistakenly arrested for 'dogging'. He besides manages to toast his male parent-in-constabulary's CBE on a barbecue. Despite Howard knocking out the midwife, the series ends with the birth of a baby girl, Emily.

The Worst Christmas of My Life [edit]

A three-function Christmas special entitled The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown on BBC One in December 2006.

Episode One [edit]

Set: 23 December: (aired 19 December 2006)

Subsequently his office Christmas political party, Howard takes his intoxicated boss Nicola in a cab to her habitation, after realising she's not fit to drive. During the cab ride, she vomits on him and, after taking a shower at her place, he is forced outside naked past Nicola, afterward she mistakes his nakedness for preparation to rape her. Howard turns up naked on his in-laws' doorstep, and proceeds to urinate on the Christmas goose after the power goes out, leading to a series of events which culminate in his falsely claiming to his married woman and mother-in-police force that his begetter-in-police force is dead. Later, he crashes into his father-in-law, drags his unconscious body inside, causes his mother-in-law to faint, makes his wife suspicious well-nigh his naked escapade the previous night when Nicola apologises and returns his clothes, and finally destroys his wife's babyhood dollhouse, which was to be a gift to their newborn daughter, while attempting to set up the damaged fuse that led to him urinating on the goose initially.

Episode Two [edit]

Set: 24 December: (aired 21 Dec 2006)

With Dick standing to receive wreaths and read obituaries following his "expiry", his contempt for Howard deepens farther when he discovers Howard bought a new automobile with the money he was expecting to receive from the will. A freak blow involving a strimmer leads to family friend Felicity's pedigree dog, who is regularly put out to stud, losing a testicle, with Howard once more taking the blame. He then takes baby Emily Christmas shopping in the local shopping eye, where he gets in a fight with a drunken Father Christmas and accidentally ends up pushing around the wrong pushchair. He eventually manages to swap the prams back and return the baby to its black parents and repossess Emily, but Howard's despair isn't over all the same as he spills mulled vino over the local Vicar when he visits the house. Howard's visit to church building on Christmas Eve sees him get in argument with Fraser over his refusal to publish his memoirs and another fight - this time with Eve'south new honey, Mitch, who Howard saw kissing another adult female at the office Christmas party.

Episode Three [edit]

Set: 25 December: (aired 22 December 2006)

Howard receives a visit from police on Christmas morning following his fight with Mitch, while Eve is attempting suicide in the house and Fraser is accusing him of stealing his bagpipes. Meanwhile, Howard offers to help Dick repair the dollhouse merely rapidly the pair are glued together as their visitors, the Bledlow family (including Mel'south ex-boyfriend, Ed), call in for Christmas luncheon. With Howard fretting about a missing rubber of his that the family domestic dog took from his room earlier, he spots it and leaves the meal to endeavour and repossess information technology. But he ends up setting burn to the front end room, dissentious the presents that were to be opened afterward luncheon.

Main characters [edit]

Ben Miller every bit Howard Steel, the hapless male lead. A book publisher by trade, Howard continually puts himself in dreadful situations and makes things worse by trying to either put things correct or explain what had happened.
Sarah Alexander equally Mel Cook, Howard's fiancée and and then wife, who remains in dearest with him despite his mishaps. Nevertheless, Mel (who works as a vet) gradually loses patience with him equally the story arc in each series progresses.
Alison Steadman as Angela Cook, Mel'due south mother. Her main role in life appears to exist to entertain guests at her country home, regularly worrying nearly the impression that volition be set following Howard-led problems. Regardless of Howards'southward faults, Angela often tries to see the adept in him and is friendlier to Howard than Dick. Whereas Dick doesn't empathize why Mel loves Howard, Angela can come across that the pair love each other and in the series 1 finale, Angela defends Howard afterward Dick refuses to give him the car keys to rescue Mel.
Geoffrey Whitehead every bit Dick Cook, a High Court guess and Mel's father. He has little time for Howard and struggles to understand why Mel wanted to marry him.
Janine Duvitski every bit Eve, Howard's assistant. She devotes much of her life to her work and has lilliputian social life exterior helping Howard.
Ronald Pickup as Fraser Cook, Dick'south brother. Obsessed by his days in the army, Fraser will regularly offering rather pointless advice about life. He is initially a closet homosexual simply finally comes out in Series 2 while in a relationship with his "travelling companion" Gerard (Terrence Hardiman).

Small characters [edit]

Raquel Cassidy as Cassie Turner, Howard's stalking co-worker who he had a 1-nighttime stand with (series i). She is unable to have he wants to marry Mel and goes to any length possible to attempt and ally him instead.
Emma Pierson as Sophie Cook, Mel's troublesome younger sis (serial ane). She asks Howard for relationship advice then strongly criticises him when things practice non work out. She is not in series 2 with no caption as to her absence, yet in The Worst Christmas Of My Life (third serial) information technology is revealed that she has moved to New Zealand when Howard talks to her over the phone.
Dean Lennox Kelly as Dom, Howard and Eve'southward misogynistic co-worker and Howard'due south eventual all-time man. He develops a relationship with Mel'southward younger sis, Sophie in series one. At the cease of series one Sophie announces to her parents that she and Dom are going to marry, to her parents' dismay. He does non announced in series ii and similarly to Sophie, at that place is no explanation to his absence, but he is mentioned when Eve gives Howard his part desk-bound items that he left.
John Benfield every bit Ron Steel, Howard's laddish father. He has a lap dancer girlfriend, Trish, played by Lizzie Roper (series 1).
Kim Wall as Mitch, Eve's new boyfriend (series 3). Eve quickly announces her plans to ally him but Howard feels compelled to tell her he saw him kissing another woman at the role Christmas party. Howard and Mitch terminate up fighting with nativity figures at Midnight Mass.
Paul Brooke as the Vicar, who finds Howard hard work when preparing to carry out his nuptials (series 1). Later on Emily is born, Angela and Dick are keen for her christening to be held at Winchester Cathedral and believe setting a skillful impression to the Vicar (a personal friend to the Bishop) when he calls on Christmas Eve (serial three) will seal their wishes. But Howard spills mulled wine over the Vicar, who has to be undressed to receive treatment.
Terrence Hardiman as Gerard, Fraser's lover (series 2). Howard first meets him in the bath with Fraser. He leaves mid-way through the calendar week in an attempt to make Frazer tell the family about his homosexuality. He afterward returns for the terminal episode.
Lizzie Roper as Trish, Ron Steel's lap dancer girlfriend (series 1). In series 2 it is revealed that she left Ron for his carpeting fitter.

Episode list [edit]

Reception [edit]

The serial were both critically acclaimed and pop, with the commencement serial averaging 5 million viewers on BBC Ane.^[1] Reviewing the opening episode of the 2nd series, Kathryn Flett wrote in The Observer that information technology "really made (her) giggle".^[two]

International versions [edit]

An American pilot was ordered by the Fox network in 2005, but Play a trick on decided not to go on with the show. CBS also commissioned a airplane pilot of the series entitled Worst Week. Adapted past Matt Tarses,^[3] Worst Calendar week premiered on 22 September 2008, on CBS and was canceled 20 May 2009,.^[4]

In late 2015, a Greek version aired on Mega Channel with the championship "Η χειρότερη εβδομάδα της ζωής μου" ("The worst week of my life").^[five]

Availability [edit]

Series one and two, as well as the Christmas special, are bachelor on Region 2 DVD. The Worst Week Of My Life: Complete BBC Collection was released on Region ii DVD on 26 November 2007. The beginning serial is also available on Region 1 DVD, and had a Region 4 release in February 2008. A two-episode French version was produced in 2011 by Frédéric Auburtin. Beginning in 2020 UK Digital Aqueduct Forces Tv began broadcasting repeats of the serial.

References [edit]

^ "British Audition Enquiry Bureau Top 30s, March and April 2004". Barb. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Kathryn Flett on Goggle box". The Observer. 20 November 2005. Retrieved sixteen Oct 2012.
^ "News - Worst Week of My Life U.s.?". British Sitcom Guide. 7 August 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
^ "Canceled TV shows HQ - Tv Series Finale". Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
^ "MEGA TV - Η Χειρότερη Εβδομάδα της Ζωής μου". {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links [edit]

The Worst Week of My Life at BBC Online
The Worst Week of My Life at BBC Online Comedy Guide
The Worst Week of My Life at IMDb
The Worst Week of My Life at epguides.com
The Worst Calendar week of My Life at British Comedy Guide
BBC Press Office pages on The Worst Christmas of My Life

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Week_of_My_Life