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19.11.03


TV ENTERTAINMENT


All that is mad, bad, quirky and bonkers about the people and places of Britain - Little Britain comes to BBC TWO


The comedy Little Britain comes to BBC TWO comedy zone on Monday 1 December after a critically successful run on BBC THREE.


Based on the highly successful Radio 4 series, Little Britain has a mix of character-based funny sketches written and performed by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.


All of modern Britain is here...

Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain


Daffyd is the only gay man in his village (and that's the way he wants to keep it)...


Gary is the teenage boy with an unhealthy attraction to his best friend's granny...


Marjorie Dawes is the terrifying FatFighters group leader...


Vicky Pollard, the incoherent young offender...


and April and Nevile, the rubbish St.Tom's Ambulance volunteers.


Also including, Bernard Chumley the ageing theatre actor with a suspicious need to rid himself of his sister Kitty...


romance novelist Dame Sally who has no idea how to write romantic novels...


Des Kaye the former kids TV star now bitter and working in a DIY store...


and, of course, Emily Howard, the rubbish transvestite.


Little Britain also features special guest stars including Anthony Head and Tom Baker as narrator.


Shot both on location and in front of a studio audience, Little Britain looks at the breathtaking debris of modern life and all that makes Britain, Britain.


The series, starting on BBC TWO on 1 December 2003, was originally shown on BBC THREE.


Guide to Little Britain


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