Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. Image shows from L to R: Louise (Kathryn Drysdale), Jonny Keogh (Ralf Little), Donna Henshaw (Natalie Casey), Janet (Sheridan Smith), Gary 'Gaz' Wilkinson (Will Mellor). Copyright: BBC
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps

Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Three / BBC Two / BBC Choice
  • 2001 - 2011
  • 79 episodes (9 series)

Sitcom following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-somethings in Runcorn, an industrial town in the North of England. Stars Natalie Casey, Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Kathryn Drysdale, Ralf Little and more.

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Choose The Tunes For Two Pints

A fun challenge for you now BBC Three fans. If you know your Britney from your Beyoncé and your Girls Aloud from your Gaga we need your musical knowledge and excellent taste. The next series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is in production at the moment and we want you to suggest the music to be played in The Archers pub.

Dana Stevens, BBC, 9th February 2011

BBC set to refresh Two Pints Of Lager

The BBC is set to 'refresh' the cast of long-running youth-orientated sitcom Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet of Crisps.

British Comedy Guide, 8th April 2010

They've got another two rounds in but last orders has been called for Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.

Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 17th July 2009

Will Mellor on Two Pint's interactive finale

Will Mellor plays randy Gaz, the man at the centre of simmering love rivalry in Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. But as the hit sitcom prepares to go interactive, he told The Daily Record why the real Will is more of a father figure.

Graham Keal, Daily Record, 2nd May 2009

Two Pints? Two endings...

The ending of the eighth series of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps is to be decide by the sitcom's fans. BBC Three viewers will vote online to decide the outcome of a love triangle between Gaz, Janet and Donna.

Chortle, 7th April 2009

Review of the Comic Relief Special: Having crammed the casts of all three programmes onto one small set, leaving them with little to do except stand awkwardly around like infants at a Christmas concert, the show proceeded to unleash a barrage of the lamest jokes ever be to inflicted in the name of charity. In a good cause? Certainly. Terrible? Definitely. But then my opinion is poisoned by an abiding aversion to Coming Of Age. Working to combat poverty, suffering and injustice is all well and good, but if Comic Relief promised to eradicate Coming Of Age I would really put my hand in my pocket.

Harry Venning, The Stage, 17th March 2009

Did we like it? Hell no! Now on its eighth series, Two Pints has now become a parody of itself. With the exception of Friends and ER not many American shows, never mind hurriedly written and produced British ones, can justify eight series. Two Pints used to be a witty and inspiring reflection of the ordinary working class hero boozing down the local with their mates. Now it remains a hollow vessel.

For Comic Relief, the makers united the 2 Pints gang with characters from its sister sitcoms Grownups and Coming of Age, but even though this was for charity, we can't overlook the fact that this was a load of self indulgent old guff.

The Custard TV, 11th March 2009

Comic Relief Special Review

These shows are clearly aimed at complete morons. The kind of moron that actually talks in text speak. You could improve the world immeasurably by finding out where they film this shite and dropping concrete flags from a helicopter over the exit at closing time.

mofgimmers, TV Scoop, 10th March 2009

Pints of view

Rubbish." "Hateful." "The worst programme on television." These are just some of the nicer criticisms vented in the general direction of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. It's been universally panned - not least in these pages - but BBC3 sitcom Two Pints Of Lager keeps on going. So are we missing something?

Peter Cashmore, The Guardian, 7th March 2009

Sheridan Smith doubles up on her roles from Two Pints... and Grownups as the casts of these shows and the dreadful (no, really it is) Coming of Age come together for a comedy pub quiz for Comic Relief. Should be fun if you can bear any of these shows.

Mark Wright, The Stage, 6th March 2009

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