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Two Doors Down
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 2013 - 2023
- 47 episodes (7 series)
Comedy focused on Latimer Crescent residents Eric and Beth Baird, plus their neighbours and immediate family. Stars Arabella Weir, Alex Norton, Doon Mackichan, Jonathan Watson, Elaine C. Smith and more.
- Series 3, Episode 6 repeated Wednesday at 10pm on BBC Scotland
Streaming rank this week: 1,597
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
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Further details
Eric leaves the freezer door open, leading to a huge puddle of chilly recrimination for everyone.
Faced with chucking out a freezer full of defrosted food, Beth decides there's only one thing for it - cook everything and invite Cathy, Colin, Christine, Sophie, Ian and Jaz over to eat the lot. Everything goes well until Cathy urges Colin to pop home and get something out of their double-door extra-large freezer to replace the defrosted food - a whole Scottish salmon. Pity it won't fit into Beth's run-of-the-mill freezer.
As the food fiasco continues, temperatures begin to rise in Beth's kitchen and it's only a matter of time before this neighbourly get together leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 1st April 2016
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Arabella Weir | Beth |
Alex Norton | Eric |
Doon Mackichan | Cathy |
Jonathan Watson | Colin |
Elaine C. Smith | Christine |
Jamie Quinn | Ian |
Sharon Rooney | Sophie |
Harki Bhambra | Jaz |
Liam McLeod | Sports Commentary (Voice) |
Simon Carlyle | Writer |
Gregor Sharp | Writer |
Simon Hynd | Director |
Catherine Gosling Fuller | Producer |
Steven Canny | Executive Producer |
Ewan Angus | Executive Producer |
Myfanwy Moore | Executive Producer |
Calum Ross | Editor |
Greg Shaw | Production Designer |
Nathaniel Rateliff | Composer |
Video
Frozen food dinner party
Cathy and Colin have come round to help Beth sort through the contents of her freezer.
Featuring: Doon Mackichan (Cathy), Jonathan Watson (Colin) & Arabella Weir (Beth).
Press
Two Doors Down reunites us with Eric and Beth (Alex Norton and Arabella Weir) a middle-aged Glaswegian couple who are part of a close-knit neighbourhood. From the opening instalment I got the impression that each episode of the series will be based around one crisis or another that the neighbours have with the rest of the street getting involved in the process. This time it was Eric's late night hunt for oven chips that led to Beth's freezer being left open overnight and completely ruining all the food that was in it. This prompts Beth to invite friends and family around to sample a buffet that includes everything from vegetable pakoras to apple pie. Drafted into help in the kitchen is Cathy (Doon Mackichan), Beth's neighbour who can't help but pass comment on how big her freezer is in comparison to her friend's and how it pains to even help put stuff in the oven. The other story running throughout this first episode is that of Eric and Beth's son Ian (Jamie Quinn) who is about to move in with his boyfriend Jaz (Harki Bhambra) but isn't keen to tell his parents just yet. Whilst Two Doors Down wasn't laugh-out-loud funny what I enjoyed about the show was the way in which you identified with at least one of the characters. I feel most people know an Eric or a Beth or a Cathy and therefore it's not a hard task to imagine these people living on your street. The central gag of the freezer breaking down is an equally realistic conceit and the scene in which Beth and Cathy were trying to work out what went in the oven and what temperature was very funny indeed. I feel that the sitcom's creator Simon Carlyle has a very good ear for everyday dialogue and that's true of both Two Doors Down and his work on Boy Meets Girl. The cast are equally on form with Norton, Weir and Mackichan the highlights of a strong ensemble who were all trying their best to make the show work. My only criticism of Two Doors Down at this early stage is that the supporting characters don't feel as well-realised as the main cast which is true of Ian and Jaz as well as Sharon Rooney's Sophie who doesn't get to do much at all. Overall I would say that Two Doors Down is a promising and likeable sitcom that contains believable characters and situations which is something I couldn't say a lot of other contemporary comedies.
Matt, The Custard TV, 2nd April 2016Review: Two Doors Down, BBC Two
This being sitcomland, nobody is allowed to be entirely normal.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 2nd April 2016Two Doors Down returns for a full series following its one-off 2014 special, rejoining the residents of Latimer Crescent in Glasgow. Eric (Alex Norton) comes home drunk from the pub, leaving the freezer door ajar after bingeing on oven chips. To avoid having to throw away the food, furious Beth (Arabella Weir, her Scottish accent still a work in progress, it would seem) decides to invite the neighbours round to help polish it off. It's a mundane set-up, not helped by a woeful lack of laughs.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 1st April 2016