dinnerladies (1998)

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Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

• Released: 1998-11-12
• Genres: Comedy
• Seasons: 2, 16 episodes
• Episode length: 30m
• Network: BBC Two
• Status: Ended
• TMDB rating: 7.5/10 from 38 votes

Created by Victoria Wood.

Top cast

• Maxine Peake as Twinkle
• Thelma Barlow as Dolly Bellfield
• Anne Reid as Jean
• Shobna Gulati as Anita
• Duncan Preston as Stan Meadowcroft
• Victoria Wood as Brenda
• Celia Imrie as Philippa Moorcroft
• Andrew Dunn as Tony Martin

Full cast & crew

Where to watch dinnerladies

• United Kingdom: stream on Sky Go, Now TV

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