Friday Night Dinner: The Carpet Cleaner


10:00 pm - 10:35 pm, Friday, August 28 on E4 Extra (31)

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The Carpet Cleaner
Season 4, Episode 2

Dad's annual hinge oiling evening arrives, but when he spills some of the commodity on Mum's beloved carpet, it's a race against time to clean it up before she finds out. Meanwhile, Jim gets a cat. Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter star in this instalment of the award-winning comedy, also featuring John Sessions as Mr Morris, the carpet cleaner


Comedy Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Tamsin Greig (Actor) .. Mum
Paul Ritter (Actor) .. Dad
Simon Bird (Actor) .. Adam
Tom Rosenthal (Actor) .. Jonny
Mark Heap (Actor) .. Jim
Tracy-Ann Oberman (Actor) .. Val
John Sessions (Actor) .. Mr Morris
Sanchia McCormack (Actor) .. Linda
Phoebe Torrance (Actor) .. Sophie the waitress
Martin Dennis (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Tamsin Greig (Actor) .. Mum
Born: June 12, 1966 in Kent
Best Known For: Green Wing, Love Soup and Episodes.
Early-life: Born on July 12, 1966, in Kent. She is descended from a Scottish grandfather on her dad's side and a Jewish great-grandfather from Poland on her mum's side. She grew up in Kilburn, north London, and showed a talent for acting at an early age - she claims, as a middle child, it was her way of getting attention. Tamsin graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in drama. Before breaking into showbusiness, she was an administrator for the Family Planning Association.
Career: Greig achieved a cult following playing Debbie Aldridge in The Archers on Radio 4 and had early TV roles in Blue Heaven, Neverwhere, Faith in the Future and Wycliffe. In 2000, the sitcom Black Books helped boost her profile. She had a cameo in 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead, and in the same year appeared in the first series of cult medical sitcom Green Wing, for which she received a Royal Television Society award and a Bafta nomination. She's also featured in Doctor Who and took a key role in romantic comedy- drama Love Soup. Stage credits include the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival. Greig won a Laurence Olivier Award for her role in Much Ado About Nothing. Recent TV work includes the sitcoms Friday Night Dinner and Episodes, and black comedy series Inside No 9.
Quote: 'The Archers fans touch you much more than the TV fans. They come up to you and hug you because they think you're a part of their family.'
Paul Ritter (Actor) .. Dad
Simon Bird (Actor) .. Adam
Born: August 19, 1984 in Guildford, Surrey
Best Known For: The Inbetweeners.
Early-life: Simon Antony Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1984. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, where he became an accomplished violinist and took part in a variety of orchestras. He then moved on to study English at Queens' College, Cambridge. Alongside his studies, he got involved with the illustrious Footlights drama group, eventually being elected as its chairman in 2005.
Career: After leaving Cambridge, Bird set up the sketch comedy group The House of Windsor with Inbetweeners co-star Joe Thomas. They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and 2008, receiving favourable coverage in the national press. His breakthrough came in 2008 when he was cast as Will McKenzie in the delightfully crude high-school sitcom The Inbetweeners. He was named Best Actor at the 2009 British Comedy Awards. Three series of The Inbetweeners was followed by a hugely successful movie version. The movie sequel was released in August 2014. He has also hosted comedy panel show The King is Dead and starred in Friday Night Dinner and Chickens.
Quote: 'I'm pretty geeky I think. I don't really have to act that much! Hopefully I'm not quite as officious as Will, but yeah I've definitely got some geeky tendencies.'
Tom Rosenthal (Actor) .. Jonny
Born: January 14, 1988 in London
Best Known For: Friday Night Dinner.
Early-life: Thomas Alan Smith Rosenthal was born in London on January 14, 1988, the son of TV producer Christine Smith and sports presenter Jim Rosenthal.
Career: In 2011, Rosenthal began starring in Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner alongside Simon Bird. His other TV credits include Plebs, Breathless and Broadchurch. When he is not acting, he is performing stand-up.
Quote: 'I still get petrified before I go on stage. I actually get worried if I'm not nervous beforehand.'
Trivia: Rosenthal supports Arsenal FC.
Mark Heap (Actor) .. Jim
Tracy-Ann Oberman (Actor) .. Val
John Sessions (Actor) .. Mr Morris
Born: February 11, 1953 in Largs, Ayrshire
Best Known For: Surreal comedy Stella Street.
Early-life: Born John Gibbs Marshall on January 11, 1953, in Largs, Scotland and spent some of his earliest years in Kempston, Bedfordshire and St Albans, Hertfordshire. He graduated with an M.A. in English literature from the University of Wales, where he had begun to appear to audiences with his comedy in shows such as 'Look back in Bangor' and 'Marshall Arts'. He later studied for a PhD from McMaster University in Canada, although he did not complete the doctorate.
Career: He attended RADA in the late 1970s, studying alongside Kenneth Branagh. His debut film was 1982's The Sender, a horror feature in which he played a patient. Two years later he appeared opposite Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty. In the late 1980s he played Lionel Zipser in Porterhouse Blue, appeared regularly on Whose Line is it Anyway? and starred in his own one-man TV show, simply titled John Sessions. He has also appeared in Henry V and In the Bleak Midwinter, both directed by old friend Branagh. He scored a major hit in spoof soap opera Stella Street for which he characterised a variety of middle-aged actors, alongside Phil Cornwell. Other projects include Skins, Outnumbered and The Iron Lady.
Quote: 'When Whose Line Is it Anyway? was such a success, I became a bit of a showbiz Charlie. It did go to my head a bit. So it was important to have old friends who really knew me, who could remind me about what really mattered.'
Trivia: In August 2014, he was one of the 200 public figures who signed a letter opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum.
Sanchia McCormack (Actor) .. Linda
Phoebe Torrance (Actor) .. Sophie the waitress
Robert Popper (Writer)
Martin Dennis (Director)