Frayed
- TV comedy drama
- Sky One / Sky Max
- 2019 - 2022
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy following an Australian woman whose life is turned upside down, and has to confront the truths from her past. Stars Sarah Kendall, Frazer Hadfield, Maggie Ireland-Jones, Kerry Armstrong, Diane Morgan and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Further details
The year is 1989. The Wall is about to come down, Phil Collins is bothering the charts, and thanks to Crocodile Dundee the world is in the midst of a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture.
The same can't be said for Simeone Cooper, a fabulously wealthy London housewife who'd rather forget her antipodean adolescence. However, when fate brings her and her two teenagers back to her hometown, Simeone must revisit the past and finally face up to the friends and family she left behind, and only ever knew her as "Sammy".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 26th September 2019
- Time
- 2am
- Channel
- Sky One
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Sarah Kendall | Sammy Burbeck |
Frazer Hadfield | Lenny Burbeck |
Maggie Ireland-Jones | Tess Burbeck |
Kerry Armstrong | Jean Cooper |
Diane Morgan | Fiona |
George Houvardas | Chris George MP |
Ben Mingay | Jim Cooper |
Doris Younane | Beverly Spray |
Robert Webb | Rufus |
Trystan Go | Bo |
Alexandra Jensen | Abby Harris |
Matt Passmore | Dan Atkins |
Challito Browne | Wade |
Sarah Aubrey | Mrs Porter |
Gina Bramhill | Mae |
Cass Cumerford | Beach Tramp |
Alan Dearth | Headmaster Fletcher |
Kerry Godliman | Bambi |
Chantelle Jamieson | Eleanor |
Rufus Jones | Wilko |
Paul Putner | Bailiff |
Shaun Robinson | Dean |
Christopher Stollery | Terry Harris |
Georgina Symes | Deanne |
Sharon Horgan | Norma Staircastle (Voice) |
Sarah Kendall | Writer |
Lauren Merolli | Script Executive |
Shaun Wilson | Director |
Nicole O'Donohue | Producer |
Clelia Mountford | Executive Producer |
Sharon Horgan | Executive Producer |
Kevin Whyte | Executive Producer |
Morwenna Gordon | Executive Producer |
Rick Kalowski | Executive Producer |
Que Minh Luu | Executive Producer |
Sally Riley | Executive Producer |
Lisa Wang | Line Producer |
Sarah Kendall | Associate Producer |
Rebecca Kerley | Line Producer |
Mark Henson | Editor |
Fiona Donovan | Production Designer |
Kirsty McGregor | Casting Director |
Nina Edwards | Costume Designer |
Matthew Temple | Director of Photography |
Sheldon Wade | Make-up Designer |
Bryony Marks | Composer |
Bobbie Cousins | Production Designer |
Allison Wyldeck | Costume Designer |
James Rhodes | Director of Photography |
Lulu Hall | Make-up Designer |
Tom Read | 1st Assistant Director |
Andy Lumsden | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
Frayed review
It's not your typical riches to rags story admittedly and the first half was so strong that I hope that the decline in the second was just due to scene setting and introducing a whole host of regular characters very quickly.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 27th September 2019Sarah Kendall on new comedy Frayed
"I don't like TV shows where family members love each other."
Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 27th September 2019Sarah Kendall's homecoming comedy will make you wince
"Every man has a lurking desire to appear considerable in his native place," observed Dr Johnson. In his case, that place was Lichfield. For Sarah Kendall, a comedian from Australia who moved to London in 2000, it is Newcastle in New South Wales.
David Sexton, Evening Standard, 26th September 2019TV review: Frayed, Sky One
It's funny but one senses by the end of the first episode, that maybe like those monologues, there is something darker lurking under the surface.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th September 2019Frayed review - like a nightmare on Ramsay Street
Samantha has a dream life in London. But when her husband dies in a sexually compromising situation, she ends up broke, desperate and Down Under.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 26th September 2019Frayed, Sky One, review
Despite a wobbly start, Frayed shows huge potential and while the jokes are few, they are funny.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 26th September 2019Frayed, episode one, review
A pungent Eighties-set comedy that doesn't know how far to take the joke.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 26th September 2019