Playhouse Presents: Psychobitches
Catherine Tate, Rebecca Front and Katy Brand are among the stars exposing the obsessions and psychoses of history's most famous women.
Further details
Featuring an all-star cast of celebrated comedic talent, this one-off 30 minute comedy pilot for the Playhouse Presents strand puts history's most famous women into the psychiatrist's chair and shines a spotlight on their psychoses and obsessions.
From Beatrix Potter who believes the animals really are talking to her; to Judy Garland, copying with her bi-polar mood swings and singing compulsion; to Eva Braun, who needs help for her seriously questionable taste in men.
Notes
This pilot was broadcast as Episode 11 during anthology series Playhouse Presents Series 1.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 21st June 2012
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Sky Arts
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Regular cast | |
|---|---|
| Rebecca Front | Therapist |
| Guest cast | |
|---|---|
| Catherine Tate | Eva Braun |
| Catherine Tate | Edith Piaf |
| Sharon Horgan | Jane Austen |
| Katy Brand | Joan of Arc |
| Katy Brand | George Eliot |
| Sheila Reid | Mother Teresa |
| Samantha Spiro | Mary Whitehouse |
| Samantha Spiro | Judy Garland |
| Selina Griffiths | Beatrix Potter |
| Andy Nyman | Sarah (The Wife of Abraham) |
| Sharon Horgan | Frida Kahlo |
| Writing team | |
|---|---|
| Jeremy Dyson | Writer |
| Bert Tyler-Moore | Writer |
| George Jeffrie | Writer |
| Pippa Brown | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Laurence Rickard | Writer |
| Simon Carlyle | Writer |
| Morwenna Banks | Writer |
| Dan Swimer | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Production team | |
|---|---|
| Jeremy Dyson | Director |
| Pippa Brown | Producer |
| Saskia Schuster | Executive Producer |
| Ben Cavey | Executive Producer |
| Lucy Lumsden | Executive Producer |
| Sophie Clarke-Jervoise | Executive Producer |
| Charlie Phillips | Editor |
| Mo Holden | Production Designer |
| Philip Pope | Composer |
| Ben Cavey | Creator |
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