Radio 4 |
1999 (four episodes) |
Sitcom written by long-term collaborators Jennie Éclair and Julie Balloo, and starring Éclair as Juliette Johnson, the self-absorbed waning star of a daytime 'people show', who manages to juggle her career, marriage and motherhood effortlessly (ie, she lets other people do all the work), at one point organising a meticulously-planned nervous breakdown. Jeff Rawle (Drop The Dead Donkey) played Juliette's dull-but-dependable optician husband, Ron, and real-life media being Annabel Giles featured as best friend Corinne; the cast also included Balloo, Anthony Best and Martin Hyder. Unfortunately, some of the acting in this show could best be described as 'dodgy', and the script was not a patch on the earlier Éclair/Balloo creation On Baby Street.