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Our Friend Victoria

Our Friend Victoria

Description: The life of the well-loved and highly respected comedian and actor Victoria Wood is commemorated and celebrated in this six-part series. Each episode is presented by one of her close co-stars and friends, such as Julie Walters, Michael Ball and more. As well as interviews with many actors and comedians who loved Victoria and her work, many clips and classic sketches are also featured, such as memorable characters teenage lovers Carl and Gail, rebel-without-a-cause Kelly-Marie Tunstall, and the swimmer Chrissie, and also the waitress sketch, scenes from `dinnerladies', Acorn Antiques, and many more.
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Year Released: 2017
Number of seasons: 1
Number of episodes: 7
First episode air date: April 11, 2017
Cast: Victoria Wood

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Victoria Wood

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Plot: Victoria Wood CBE was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed...
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Victoria Wood

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Plot: Victoria Wood CBE was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed...
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Eric and Ernie

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Dinnerladies

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Plot: While serving up food to hungry customers, staff members at a canteen in a Manchester manufacturing company do what they can to make life bearable. The crew consists of a motley mix of characters, from assistant manager Bren, who has a not-so-secret crush on manager Tony, to Bren's selfish mother,...
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That Day We Sang

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Would I Lie to You?

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Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings

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Plot: Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings was a one-off Christmas comedy sketch-show special, written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood. It was first broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 2000. Wikipedia
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Victoria Wood As Seen On TV

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Plot: Victoria Wood casts a comic glance at the world with the help of a highly-skilled cast, with sketches including "Waitress", "Acorn Antiques" and "He Didn't!"
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Wood and Walters

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Plot: Wood and Walters was a British television comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with one pilot in 1981 and a series of seven shows in 1982. Wikipedia
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Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas

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Acorn Antiques

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Plot: Acorn Antiques is a parodic soap opera written by British comedian Victoria Wood as a regular feature in the two seasons of Victoria Wood as Seen on TV, which ran from 1985 to 1987. It was turned into a musical by Wood, opening in 2005. Wikipedia
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Queen Victoria's Children

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Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

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Harry & Paul

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Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea

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dinnerladies diaries

dinnerladies diaries
Plot: In 1998 Victoria Wood put pen to paper and wrote her multi-award-winning comedy, dinnerladies. Twenty years on this documentary takes a look back at what it was like working on this well-loved sitcom. Creating dinnerladies was, in fact, a step into the unknown and a big leap. And, during this challenge...
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