New BBC2 Series : Fear, Stress and Anger

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Fear, Stress And Anger

Peter Davison (Doctor Who) and Pippa Haywood (Green Wing) star in this new sitcom from Michael Aitkens (Waiting For God). For years the baby boomers have ruled the world. But now, much to their bewilderment, they find they are past their sell-by dates and being shunted aside by the next generation.

Their 20-something children won't leave home and their ancient parents won't shuffle off the stage.

They're stuck in the middle, the sandwich generation. They had it all and spent it all and now they're screaming as they become the new poor, with the added joys of bad backs, hormone imbalances and fading libidos.

Still very much in love, Martin Chadwick and his wife, Julie, are panicking as the wheels come off their lives. They try drugs, therapy and new jobs, but Martin's unerring ability to screw up absolutely everything, combined with Julie's rampant neuroses, just add to the fear, the stress and the anger.



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[Totoffle]

Wheeeeeeeeee! Not only is it Pippa, it's PETER DAVISON <33 I'm sure I'm not the only one to see the Davison!Love (Astrokini being one of the others).

Thanks for the news Karma for you for bringing me Davison!News. ... I mean Pippa!News

[footy]

I might watch that

[zephine]

This starts on Thursday (22nd) at 9pm - the review from the radio times describes Pippa as being wonderful:

Crikey, what's happened to sitcoms? Have they entered some kind of space/time continuum? Why have they all, suddenly, and with only slight modifications, returned to the 1970s and 1980s? Benidorm (10pm ITV1) is basically Duty Free with mucky jokes, while After You've Gone (Friday BBC1) lacks only Wendy Craig to turn it into a rough approximation of . . . And Mother Makes Three. Fear, Stress & Anger is Terry and June for baby boomers. Peter Davison, playing pretty much the character he played in At Home with the Braithwaites, is an advertising executive who's forced to work at home, where he has problems with his excitable wife (the wonderful Pippa Haywood), two sulky teenage girls and a hapless dog. There are gags about unreliable plumbers, inappropriately timed erections and "consultants". It's all about as docile as a sitcom could possibly be, while being inoffensive enough to pass the time.

[timmyrocks]

I watched this the other day... it was hilarious! And I think Pippa's character has little bits of Helen Brittas in her... the way she freaks out over stuff lol.

[Totoffle]

I forgot that this was on, but I heard that it was less than good. I would only watch it for Pippa and Peter Davison, but... do we have mixed feelings? Is it as bad as the critics make it out to be (every review I've read basically says it's terrible)?

[Zusi]

timmyrocks said:

I watched this the other day... it was hilarious! And I think Pippa's character has little bits of Helen Brittas in her... the way she freaks out over stuff lol.

I thought that when she was weilding the knife!

I only caught last half by accident.