"The Amazing Mrs Pritchard" (2006) TV series

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Creator:

Sally Wainwright

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

2006 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

The story follows Mrs Ros Pritchard, a successful manager of a supermarket. When a couple of politicians...

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Jane Horrocks	...	Ros Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Steven Mackintosh	...	Ian Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Jodhi May	...	Miranda Lennox (6 episodes, 2006)
Janet McTeer	...	Catherine Walker (6 episodes, 2006)
Jemma McKenzie-Brown	...	Georgina Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Carey Mulligan	...	Emily Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Geraldine James	...	Hilary Rees-Benson (5 episodes, 2006)
Selina Cadell	...	Dorothy Crowther (5 episodes, 2006)
Robert Portal	...	Paul Critchley (5 episodes, 2006)
Jonathan Aris	...	Sir Richard Leavis (5 episodes, 2006)
Sally Phillips	...	Meg Bayliss (5 episodes, 2006)
Siobhan Finneran	...	Beverley Clarke (4 episodes, 2006)
Frances Tomelty	...	Kitty Porter (4 episodes, 2006)
John Humphrys	...	Himself (4 episodes, 2006)
David Glover	...	Speaker (4 episodes, 2006)
Sylvestra Le Touzel	...	Nina Morgan (4 episodes, 2006)
Tom Mison	...	Ben Sixsmith (4 episodes, 2006)
Gavin Esler	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2006)
Mairead McKinley	...	Carol (3 episodes, 2006)
Vaughan Savidge	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2006)
Joe McAweaney	...	Stanley Lewis (3 episodes, 2006)
Fred Perry	...	Reporter (3 episodes, 2006)
Meera Syal	...	Liz Shannon (3 episodes, 2006)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

RSA, John Adam Street, Strand, London, England, UK

Company:

Kudos Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

The first series ended on a cliffhanger, with the intention being that the programme would return for a second series. However this was cancelled because the first series received poor audience ratings. After its initial run in the UK, a title card was added to the final episode when it was broadcast in Canada and a few other places, but not for its PBS run in the USA. This caption said that Mrs Pritchard, feeling that she had served a purpose, resigned as Prime Minister, and that she and her husband were living happily at home with their family in Eatanswill. Catherine Walker had become Prime Minister and was successfully leading the Purple Alliance; she never married.

Nice starter for 10

Epiosde 1 screened last night - Tuesday 3 October

It was a good start with plenty to develop in the further 5 episodes.

Often in these kind of shows where real people play themselves, the real people lack credibility - They appear to act. But here Kirsty Wark and Peter Snow played themselves with the authority one should expect from the original.

Jane Horrocks was excellent and her beleaguered hubby was entirely believable.

There was also an excellent balance between shabby politicians and exposing the job they do as remorselessly difficult. It is to hoped that this balance can be maintained throughout the production.

Interesting that it is billed as comedy when the laughs were few and far between. Not that that is a bad thing.