Flowers
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4
- 2016 - 2018
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Dark comedy following the eccentric Flower family and their struggle to live harmoniously. Stars Olivia Colman, Julian Barratt, Daniel Rigby, Sophia Di Martino, Will Sharpe and more.
Streaming rank this week: 29
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Notes
On its first broadcast, this episode was combined with Episode 2 to form an hour long block. The credits for this episode were shown at the end of the second episode. The combined programme reached approximately 830,000 viewers (5.5%).
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 25th April 2016
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Olivia Colman | Deborah |
| Julian Barratt | Maurice |
| Daniel Rigby | Donald |
| Sophia Di Martino | Amy |
| Will Sharpe | Shun |
| Georgina Campbell | Abigail |
| Angus Wright | George |
| Colin Hurley | Barry |
| Hammed Animashaun | Ryan |
| Alistair Green | Tommy |
| Zita Sattar | Barbara |
| Rico Canadinhas | Hugo |
| Leila Hoffman | Hattie |
| Desiree Akhavan | Carol (Publisher) |
| Will Sharpe | Writer |
| Katie Carpenter | Script Editor |
| Will Sharpe | Director |
| Naomi De Pear | Executive Producer |
| Emma Kingsman-Lloyd | Producer |
| Jane Featherstone | Executive Producer |
| Selina MacArthur | Editor |
| Luana Hanson | Production Designer |
| Jamie Cairney | Director of Photography |
| Arthur Sharpe | Composer |
| Taz Modi | Composer |
Video
Tea Time
Deborah delivers a brew to the workers.
Featuring: Olivia Colman (Deborah), Hammed Animashaun (Ryan), Alistair Green (Tommy) & Colin Hurley (Barry).
Press
TV review: Flowers
A strange and saturnine new drama-comedy series from the pen of Will Sharpe, Flowers opened with Julian Barratt's writer, Maurice Flowers, attempting to hang himself from a tree near his family's rural cottage. It got darker from there.
Ed Potton, The Times, 26th April 2016Flowers review
A gloriously dark sitcom about depression and rage.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 26th April 2016Flowers grows on you
True to its title, Flowers needed time to come in to full bloom. Channel 4 played out the first two episodes back to back last night, which is what broadcasters normally do when they want you to know they deem this or that drama or comedy to be An Important Event. In the case of Flowers though, it was a shrewd move.
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 26th April 2016Black comedy normally draws on a juxtaposition between disturbing subject matter and glib humour. Instead, Will Sharpe's six-part series - set in the shambolic rural home of the Flowers family (played by Julian Barrat, Olivia Colman, Daniel Rigby and Sophia Di Martino) and screening every evening across the week - intermingles its knotty and desperately sad plot with the kind of comedy that litters our lives no matter what state they are in. The heartbreaking and hilarious result sets a new standard for situation comedies everywhere.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 25th April 2016Flowers: Channel 4's peculiar, poetic comedy treat
Sad, strange and very funny comedy drama Flowers, feat. Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt, starts tonight on Channel 4...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 25th April 2016Flowers review
Having previously co-written and co-directed the acclaimed indie film Black Pond, one of Chris Langham's few projects since his downfall, Will Sharpe can rightly stake a claim to be a genuine comedy auteur on the back of this original and compelling work.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th April 2016TV preview: Flowers, C4
This is not your conventional sitcom then, but nor is it anything like Camping or The Mighty Boosh. It's sitcomland but tipped off its axis in a different direction. There are moments which will make you laugh - particularly the house party from hell in the first episode - but this is a series that stretches the genre to snapping point.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th April 2016Julian Barratt interview
The Mighty Boosh star is back in Flowers, a sitcom about a dysfunctional family. He talks about fatherhood and why he's too grumpy for panel shows.
Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 24th April 2016