Friday Night Dinner. Image shows from L to R: Jackie (Tamsin Greig), Adam (Simon Bird), Martin (Paul Ritter), Jonny (Tom Rosenthal)
Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 4
  • 2011 - 2020
  • 37 episodes (6 series)

Channel 4 sitcom observing as twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go round to their parents' house for Friday night dinner. Stars Paul Ritter, Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Mark Heap and Tracy-Ann Oberman

Episode menu

Series 2, Episode 5 - The Yoghurts

Jonny is in a real pickle: he wants to split up with his 43 year old girlfriend (Liz - who's also his boss), but is too scared to do so. Adam, meanwhile is happy to keep teasing him about her age ("I'll switch the stair lift on").

Further details

Friday Night Dinner. Image shows from L to R: Adam (Simon Bird), Jonny (Tom Rosenthal), Jackie (Tamsin Greig), Martin (Paul Ritter), Nellie (Frances Cuka). Copyright: Popper Pictures / Big Talk Productions

Jonny is in a real pickle: he wants to split up with his 43 year old girlfriend (Liz - who's also his boss), but is too scared to do so. Adam, meanwhile is happy to keep teasing him about her age ("I'll switch the stair lift on").

Grandma, who's come for dinner, offers Jonny some advice - "Take her out dancing", before showing him how to dance in the kitchen. While they dance to the music on the radio, it transpires that it's actually just the music for the news headlines, and before long, Jonny and Grandma are actually dancing to the news. Adam is loving it.

Meanwhile, Dad has been drying fish under the stairs, (Dad: "Have you never had dried fish before?" asks dad "Not from a cupboard" replies Adam).

Then Grandma gets locked in the boot of Adam's car, and everything changes. How will they get her out? And as if that isn't bad enough, Jonny's girlfriend, Liz turns up at the house. What will Jonny do?

Broadcast details

Date
Sunday 4th November 2012
Time
10:10pm
Channel
Channel 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Wednesday 7th November 2012 2:35am 4seven
Friday 9th November 2012 11:05pm C4
Sunday 11th November 2012 1:40am 4seven
Saturday 29th June 2013 12:20am E4
Saturday 5th October 2013 1:30am E4
Saturday 7th June 2014 1:50am E4
Saturday 29th December 2018 3:20am E4
Sunday 1st March 2020 1:50am E4
Friday 13th November 2020 3:20am E4
Friday 26th February 2021 12:10am C4

Cast & crew

Cast
Paul Ritter Martin
Tamsin Greig Jackie
Simon Bird Adam
Tom Rosenthal Jonny
Mark Heap Jim
Guest cast
Frances Cuka Nellie (Grandma)
Lesley Vickerage Liz
Patrick Driver Mike Sullivan
Writing team
Robert Popper Writer
Production team
Martin Dennis Director
Robert Popper Producer
Kenton Allen Executive Producer
Nira Park Executive Producer
Caroline Leddy Executive Producer
Lucien Clayton Editor
Jeff Sherriff Production Designer

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