Tuesday 25th April 2006
Begins 11pm, Thursday 27th April 2006, Channel Five
'Suburban Shootout', Five and Paramount Comedy’s first co-commission, is a new home-grown comedy series starring Anna Chancellor, Felicity Montagu and Ralph Ineson.
The series transmits on Five on Thursday 27th April at 11pm and on Paramount Comedy 1 on Friday 28th April at 10pm. This brand new comedy is a heady mix of drug deals, craft fairs, kidnap, intimidation, wildlife protection, raffles, botox parties, swinging and shootouts.
The eight-part series, follows the surreal world of two power-crazed housewives and their gangs, all embroiled in an on-going turf war for control of Little Stempington, where the women don’t kill time, they kill each other, with anything from Glock 9mm select-fire machine pistols to potato peelers if necessary.
Beneath the apparent torpor of Women’s Institute fundraisers, mid morning bum’n’ tum exercise classes and the twice daily school run lies a secret, super-sexed, super-violent world.
The series sees Anna Chancellor ('Spooks' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral') playing Camilla Diamond, the ruthless, sexy gang leader of this fictional Home Counties town. Camilla is the proud president of the local health club charity committee but also the clandestine leader of a posse of highly armed, combat ready women who - beneath their appliqué knitwear – work-out and party in equal measure.
The other leader, and the force of good in this mad world, is Barbara Du Prez played by Felicity Montagu ('I’m Alan Partridge' and 'Nighty Night'), the health club charity committee deputy president and former best friend to Camilla. After accidentally ‘terminating’ a burglar with Camilla, she decided to adopt a zero tolerance policy to local crime but, unlike her nemesis, resisted becoming a criminal herself. She too presides over a highly trained posse of local women.
Caught up in the middle of this battle for supremacy is a newcomer to Little Stempington, Joyce Hazledine, played by Amelia Bullmore ('I’m Alan Partridge', 'Brass Eye' and 'Coronation Street'). Joyce is seen as an important addition to each gang because her husband Jeremy Hazledine, played by Ralph Ineson ('The Office' and 'Coronation Street') has just become the new Little Stempington police chief.
The Hazledines have moved to Little Stempington with their son Bill played by newcomer Tom Hiddleston, in search of the idyllic middle England existence. Unfortunately for Joyce it’s about to become her worst nightmare.
The first episode sees Joyce and Jeremy arrive in Little Stempington to a heartwarming welcome. But an invitation for a guided tour of the town turns into a nightmare when Joyce is forced to ride pillion while Camilla Diamond and her friends blow up the local Wicker Barn for not paying protection money, framing Joyce in the process. Rival gang leader, Barbara Du Prez offers Joyce a way out by infiltrating Camilla’s gang and destroying it! The only catch is she mustn’t breathe a word to her husband and, most importantly, must try to stay alive.
Also starring are: Emma Kennedy ('The Smoking Room' and 'The Lenny Henry Show'); Cathryn Bradshaw ('The Last Detective' and 'Midsomer Murders'); Lucy Robinson ('Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason' and 'Dr Who'); Rachael Blake ('Auf Wiedersehen Pet') and newcomer Ruth Wilson.
Written by comedy newcomers Gary Martin and Roger Beckett the series has already been acquired by major US cable network Oxygen and transmits in the States from March 2006.
'Suburban Shootout' is a Feelgood Fiction production for Five and Paramount Comedy. The producer is Greg Boardman and executive producer Laurence Bowen. Feelgood Fiction’s previous work includes 'The Hello Girls' and 'My Life As A Popat'.
'Suburban Shootout' transmits on Five on Thursday 27th April at 11pm and on Paramount Comedy 1 on Friday 28th April at 10pm. The series is repeated on Paramount Comedy 1 on Saturdays at 10pm, Tuesdays at 11.30pm and Thursdays at 10pm.
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