The Book Group

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The Book Group
The cast of The Book Group
Genre	Sitcom
Creator(s)	Annie Griffin
Starring	Anne Dudek Michelle Gomez Kevin Nealon James Lance Rory McCann Saskia Mulder Bonnie Engstrom
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	12
Production
Running time	approx 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	December 4, 2002 – February 28, 2003

The Book Group was a situation comedy, aired on Channel 4 between 2001 and 2002, and ran for two series. It was written and directed by the American-born Glasgow resident Annie Griffin, who also wrote and directed Festival. It was the winner of two Bafta Scotland awards.

In January 2006, it was announced that screenwriter Andrew Davies would make a feature film adaptation of The Book Group for Film 4.^[1] At the moment it is not known if original writer-director Annie Griffin would be involved.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Cast
3 Crew
4 Episodes
- 4.1 Season one
- 4.2 Season two
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Plot synopsis

The Book Group revolved around the life of Clare Pettengill (Anne Dudek), who, at the start of the series, had recently arrived in Glasgow. She starts up a book club to try to find friends with similar interests. Those whom she encounters are not what she expected: her new group consists of a drug-addled, egotistical postgraduate student, an easy-going disabled man who aims to be a writer, three discontented footballers' wives, and a straggler who hides his bisexuality with an obsession for football. All of the members are brought together not so much by the books that they read, but by their all having ambitions to make something better of their lives.