Sally4Ever
- TV sitcom
- Sky Atlantic
- 2018
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy about a woman whose love life takes a surprising turn. Stars Catherine Shepherd, Julia Davis, Alex Macqueen, Julian Barratt, Felicity Montagu and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Further details
Sally lives a comfortable but dull life with her partner of 10 years, David, a wedding photographer. Sally works for a marketing company and is also in line for a promotion. But when David asks Sally to marry him, it sparks a crisis and Sally embarks on a torrid affair with Emma, a bohemian artist, author, musician and actor.
Shortly after, Sally comes clean and confesses to David that their relationship is over. Bewildered and brokenhearted he moves out to his mother's home. Sally's world, by contrast, is now full of excitement and sexual adventure.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 25th October 2018
- Time
- 2am
- Channel
- Sky Atlantic
- Length
- 45 minutes
Cast & crew
Catherine Shepherd | Sally |
Julia Davis | Emma |
Alex Macqueen | David |
Julian Barratt | Nigel |
Felicity Montagu | Eleanor |
Jane Stanness | Deborah |
Steve Oram | Mick |
David Cann | Sally's Dad |
Jamie Demetriou | Steven |
Georgie Glen | Sally's Mum |
Julia Davis | Writer |
Barunka O'Shaughnessy | Script Editor |
Julia Davis | Director |
Phil Clarke | Producer |
Josh Cole | Executive Producer |
Jon Mountague | Executive Producer |
Phil Clarke | Executive Producer |
Julia Davis | Executive Producer |
Caroline Wyard | Line Producer |
Robin Peters | Editor |
David Ferris | Production Designer |
Tracey Gillham | Casting Director |
Emma Fryer | Costume Designer |
Andy Hollis | Director of Photography |
Vanessa White | Make-up Designer |
Chris May | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
Sally4Ever review
The raunchy lesbian comedy is your new British obsession.
Malcolm Venable, TV Guide, 9th November 2018Sally4Ever is one of the most joyous watches of the week. As might be expected from Julia Davis, it begins with a rough template for comedy and simply ratchets it up to beyond any tolerance. Hurrah. When sad-sack Sally (Catherine Shepherd, a lovely comedy actor playing it straight) has to witness her besotted boyfriend (Alex Macqueen) not only removing the scurf from his feet but then massaging and blow-drying his toes, it's awkward. After his abject tearful clinging proposal (she accepts, in the face of all available human evidence), he whips his dead mother's wedding dress out of his overorganised wardrobe, apologising for the yellowed stain - "she had an overactive gland", it's awkward. When he celebrates the cloying reluctance of her acceptance with strewn petals and an actionable notelet that would have him arrested in parts of my locale - "My Soulmate. My Partner. My Mother. My Lover. My Nurse, and my Clown"... it's time for Sally to embark on a filthily lesbian affair with Davis. Cue mayhem. It's not a watch for the faint-hearted or faint-brained, but, again, hurrah.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 28th October 2018Sally4Ever episode 1 review
Even the most dedicated Davis fan might not be quite ready for this new Sky Atlantic series.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 26th October 2018Julia Davis's latest series stars Catherine Shepherd (Peep Show) as a suburbanite who ditches her wet-blanket fiance (Alex Macqueen) for Davis's free-spirit artist. One graphic and comically overlong sex scene aside, nothing in this opener reaches Nighty Night's pitch-black peaks, but you suspect it is just getting started.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 25th October 2018TV review: Sally4Ever, Sky Atlantic
All I know is I'll be sticking around for the ride. So Julia Davis must be doing something right.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th October 2018Julia Davis: the anger that went into making Sally4Ever
"This goes to a lot of places and is probably more ambitious than anything I have done before"
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 25th October 2018Sally4Ever review
A singular mix of humiliation, emotional agony and bodily fluids skewers the viewer in exquisite agony.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 25th October 2018Sally4Ever, review
Julia Davis fans will be intrigued but this bleak comedy feels frustratingly familiar.
Alice Vincent, The Telegraph, 25th October 2018Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss interview
The stars of Sky Atlantic's new series discuss pushing comedic boundaries and the joys of playing horrible people.
Alexander Pollard, The Independent, 24th October 2018The triumphantly grotesque return of Julia Davis, now backed - slightly bizarrely - by HBO. This co-production between the US network and Sky is a Basic Instinct-tinged tale of an affair between a wife-to-be and a mysterious musician, featuring defiantly off-colour gags, a decidedly post-watershed sexathon and some very odd jokes about eggs. Plus Julian Barratt!
The Guardian, 19th October 2018