Siblings (TV series)
| Siblings | |
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 The opening title sequence of Siblings. | |
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Keith Akushie |
| Written by | Keith Akushie |
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| Starring | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
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| Producer(s) | Phil Gilbert[1] |
| Location(s) | West London, U.K.[2] |
| Running time | 30 mins |
| Production company(s) | Bwark Productions[2][3] |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Three |
| Original run | 7 August 2014 – Present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Siblings is a BBC Three comedy series starring Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton in the lead roles. Written by Keith Akushie, the show piloted on 7 August 2014. A second series was commissioned by the BBC on 10 September 2014, before the first series had finished airing, for broadcast in 2015.[4][5][6]
Plot
A series following the life of a brother and sister, Hannah and Dan, who share a flat as they look to lead easy lives and end up causing utter chaos.
Production
Filming
The show was filmed in and around West London, England.[2]
Cast
- Charlotte Ritchie as Hannah, proud of her job, but too lazy to do it fully. Wherever she can she tries to get herself time off or something else to make it easier. Whenever she isn't at work or cleaning up Dan's mess, she tries to find some way to party.
- Tom Stourton as Dan, Hannah's weird often unhelpful and incompetent brother. He often tries to be charismatic and often seems easily impressed. He, when left to be bored, will often get up to many bizarre things.
Episodes
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Premiere | Finale | DVD Release | |
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7 August 2014 | 11 September 2014 | | |
Series 1 (2014)
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Original air date | No. UK viewers (million) |
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| 1 | "Wheelchair Conference" | Keith Akushie, Daran Johnson | Dan Zeff | 7 August 2014 | |
| When her alcoholic boss Andy is sacked lazy Hannah seeks to impress his successor Annette Walker by claiming that, like Annette's son Charlie, her brother Dan is also in a wheelchair. In fact he is a selfish, immature scrounger though he hits it off with Annette and Charlie despite overdoing his account of his 'accident'. Whilst Annette and Hannah get drunk at a conference and have a threesome with a young waiter Dan joins Charlie's wheelchair basketball team and scores the winning goal - though he betrays his deception by getting up to do a victory dance. However the threat of the threesome being exposed means that Annette allows Hannah to keep her job. | |||||
| 2 | "Vet Drugs" | Keith Akushie | Dan Zeff | 14 August 2014 | |
| When Hannah's best friend Sadie returns from holiday with her handsome vet boyfriend Rich, announcing their engagement Hannah is jealous though she does attend the engagement party, where her rude present is not rapturously received. Dan warms to Rich who gives him a job as his receptionist, sadly unaware of how gormless he is. Hannah persuades Sadie to have a girl's night out and nearly kills her when she drugs her drink whilst Dan's total stupidity costs Rich his practice and the couple break all ties with the siblings. | |||||
| 3 | "Intern School" | Keith Akushie | Dan Zeff | 21 August 2014 | |
| Hannah goes to give a careers talk at her old school and impresses pupil Ellie, whom she takes on for work experience. Ellie is enthusiastic and efficient and lazy Hannah exploits this though when Ellie fights back Hannah uses dirty tricks to get rid of her. Dan has accompanied Hannah to the school and befriended three thirteen-year-old nerds, whom he brings home to play games with. Learning that they have been bullied by the younger brother of the boy who used to bully him Dan organizes a fight in the playground to get his belated revenge but is surprised when a teacher turns up to stop the fight, reveals his identity and tells Dan the real reason for his being bullied. | |||||
| 4 | "Laser Eye Date" | Keith Akushie, Joe Parham | Dan Zeff | 28 August 2014 | |
| The siblings' mother Marion insists that Hannah looks after her for two days whilst she is temporarily blind after laser eye surgery but Hannah feels enslaved by her. Dan dates Izzy, the free-spirited doctor he met at the STD clinic and falls in love. Hannah and Dan take Marion to Izzy's party where Hannah and Marion bond when they take revenge on Izzy's strait-laced flatmate Pete though the bonding ends when Marion gets her sight back and is not happy for Hannah to attend her Tae-Kwan-Do class. Dan's attempts to prove to Izzy meanwhile attempts to prove to Izzy that he is a sexual being, as he was left heart-broken when he found Izzy having sex with a flat mate in a cupboard. It ends horribly for Dan when he electrocutes himself with two dildos wired to a car battery. | |||||
| 5 | "Burrito Neighbours" | Keith Akushie, Lucien Young | Dan Zeff | 4 September 2014 | |
| High-flyer Gavin from the flat below asks Dan to feed his tropical fish whilst he is away. Miraculously the fish survive but, having the key to the flat, Dan passes himself off as Gavin, throwing a party at the flat. Here he has sex with Gavin's ex-girlfriend before the real Gavin returns and throws him out. Hannah falls for busker and ex-rock star Bryn, now a born again Christian who has eschewed sex before marriage. Desperate to get into his pants Hannah reunites his old group but still misses out as now he only wants sex with groupies. | |||||
| 6 | "Balcombe's Funeral" | Keith Akushie | Dan Zeff | 11 September 2014 | |
| Hannah and Dan attend the funeral of their old drama teacher Mr Balcombe, where Hannah is thrilled to see Adam Piper, the boy who gave her her first kiss and Dan meets his equally brain-dead friends Jack and Sheriff, who egg him on to do stupid things - like ingesting all of Mr Balcombe's medication. Hannah seduces Adam but is dismayed to learn that he did not give her that first kiss and is thrown out for trying to find out who did. Dan is too ill to help after swallowing all those pills. | |||||
International broadcast
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Munn, Patrick (23 August 2013). "BBC Three Orders Comedy Series ‘Siblings’, Renews ‘Badults’ For Second Season". TVWise. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton to star in BBC Three comedy, Siblings". BBC Media Centre. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ↑ Bwark Productions Ltd.
- ↑ "BBC3's Siblings returns for a second series". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ↑ "BBC Three orders Siblings Series 2". British Comedy Guide. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ↑ "BBC Three’s ‘Siblings’ Gets Green Light For Series 2!". Actonthis.tv. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ↑ Knox, David (6 January 2015). "Airdate: Siblings, Plebs". TV Tonight. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
External links
- Siblings at BBC Programmes
- Siblings at the British Comedy Guide
- Siblings at the Internet Movie Database