Jill Tyrell is a narcissistic sociopath who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic, asthmatic assistant Linda. When Jill learns that her husband has cancer, she uses this fact to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole, a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don, a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with.
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Contemporary, comic, spare and intimate.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Julia DavisJill Tyrrell
- Rebecca FrontCathy Cole
- Angus DeaytonDon Cole
- Mark GatissGlenn Bulb
- Ralph BrownJacques
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- Julia DavisCreator
- Julia DavisProducer
- Alison MacPhailProducer
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Seasons
- Series 16 eps · 2004
- Series 26 eps · 2005
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