Season 1

2004 · 6 episodes

Complete first series of the BBC television comedy sketch show, featuring the award-winning comedian. Catherine Tate plays a variety of instantly recognisable characters, from an obnoxious Hollywood actress, to a harrassed housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

1Episode 1Lauren is "not bovvered" when she mistakes the street phrase 'bling bling' for 'bing bing' while talking to her boyfriend Ryan about Beyonce. Margaret gets a nasty fright from her breakfast cereal, and later from her toaster.
2Episode 2Meet Elaine Figgis, a 34-year-old baker's assistant from York, whose fiance is Jeremiah Wainwright III, a cannibalistic multiple murderer from Texas on Death Row, and Paul and Sam, the endearingly thick Essex couple.
3Episode 3Lauren is not "bovvered" when the train conductor tells her it's the last stop and she has to get off. The posh Aga Saga Woman panics when she almost runs out of extra virgin olive oil. Elaine flies to Texas to get married.
4Episode 4Paul and Sam have a 'hilarious' conversation about a friend who has gone on holiday. New parents Ben and Karen have a row when Karen's lack of map-reading skills get them lost. Carole is nasty about street entertainers.
5Episode 5Sandra Graham has managed to successfully combine her high-powered job in the City with her love of the childrens' playground game, Last Hit. Aga Saga Woman Helen is devastated when her husband fails to find Brie in France.
6Episode 6Nasty office worker Catherine challenges Diane to guess how long it took her to drive down to Cornwall. Elaine is interviewed about the news her Death Row husband of five days is about to receive a lethal injection.

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