dinnerladies

Synopsis

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.

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Streaming on

• BBC Two↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Maxine Peake
  as Twinkle
• 
  Thelma Barlow
  as Dolly Bellfield
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  Anne Reid
  as Jean
• 
  Shobna Gulati
  as Anita
• 
  Duncan Preston
  as Stan Meadowcroft
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  Victoria Wood
  as Brenda

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