
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2019
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Episodes
- 6 (1 series)
- Starring
- Aisling Bea, Sharon Horgan, Tobias Menzies, Aasif Mandvi, Indira Varma, Sorcha Cusack, Kadiff Kirwan, Ekow Quartey and others
- Writer
- Aisling Bea
- Director
- Alex Winckler
- Producer
- Gavin O'Grady
This Way Up is a comedy about moving on, moving forward and trying to find happiness.
Written by Aisling Bea, she also stars as the charming and funny Aine, who is trying to pull her life back together after a "teeny little nervous breakdown". Her sister Shona, played by Sharon Horgan, is increasingly worried about both her sister and her own mortality. And whether or not there's room in her apartment for her boyfriend, Vish, now that she's bought that new coffee table.
Aine works at a foreign language school and is a magnet for a raggle-taggle collection of foreign and lost characters who are all trying to find their own hope and happiness in this messy world. Through Aine's own experiences, and through the experiences of those around her, This Way Up explores how the pursuit of happiness differs for everybody and unveils the obstacles, some social and some mental, which come between that goal and the tougher reality of daily lives.
Happiness is a destination we all want to reach, but how we get there is never easy. This Way Up is a pin-sharp, poignant comedy which, with warmth and keen-edged wit, shows that the journey to happiness is harder for some than others.
- Production company
- Also known as
- Happy AF (Working title)
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 8th August 2019 on Channel 4 at 10pm
- Last new broadcast
- Thursday 12th September 2019 on Channel 4 at 10pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Friday 18th October 2019 at 3:30am

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