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Season 3, Episode 2
Jools Holland and pop band the Divine Comedy guest star in the comedy sketch show, featuring the comedienne as an assortment of quirky and bizarre characters. Lauren fights with Kelly over Ryan, and 1950s landlady Ma Willow makes her first appearance
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16x9
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Movie/Drama
Sketches
Cast & Crew
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Jools Holland
(Guest)
The Divine Comedy
(Guest)
Aschlin Ditta
(Writer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Born:
May 12, 1968
in
London
Best Known For:
The Catherine Tate Show and Doctor Who.
Early-life:
Born Catherine Ford on May 12, 1968, in London, she was raised in the distinctive and iconic Bloomsbury Centre by her florist mother Josephine. Catherine has revealed that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, then the Sylvia Young Theatre School and later graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal National Theatre. She also spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career:
Tate's TV career began with small parts in serial dramas Casualty and The Bill, while her comedy talent was nurtured on The Harry Hill Show, Big Train, That Peter Kay Thing and Wild West, a series she made while pregnant. As well as her critically acclaimed comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, she has also appeared in Bleak House, on the West End stage and in the US version of The Office. The comedienne acquired a new set of fans when she became Doctor Who assistant Donna Noble; she reunited with co-star David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End during the summer of 2011.
Quote:
Of her Doctor Who appearance, she joked: 'I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job this'll do.'
Trivia:
Tate is the patron of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
Jools Holland
(Guest)
Best Known For:
His brilliant musicianship.
Early-life:
Born Julian Miles Holland on January 24, 1958, in Blackheath, London. He has twin younger brothers, Richard and Christopher. He comes from a working-class background; his father, Derek, had stints as a mini cab driver and chef, but was keen on art, music and literature. Jools' parents split when he was 11, and he spent time living with his maternal grandparents, who let him play their piano. He claims that everyone in his family could sing and play, but that he's the first of them to turn it into a career.
Career:
Holland's professional career began as a session musician, but in 1974 he became a founding member of the pop band Squeeze, but he left in 1981 to pursue a solo career. He also hosted TV show The Tube with Paula Yates from 1982 to 1987. He also rejoined Squeeze from 1985 to 1990, since when he's concentrated on his solo career with the 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. In 1992 Holland began hosting Later... with Jools Holland, a hugely successful series that showcases musical talent from across the globe - it's still enormously popular, as is its New Year spin-off Jools' Annual Hootenanny.
Quote:
'The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now.'
Trivia:
The design of Holland's recording studio, Helicon Mountain, was inspired by the 1960s TV series The Prisoner, of which he is a massive fan.
The Divine Comedy
(Guest)
Aschlin Ditta
(Writer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
