dinnerladies

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

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  Maxine PeakeTwinkle
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  Thelma BarlowDolly Bellfield
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  Anne ReidJean
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  Shobna GulatiAnita
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  Duncan PrestonStan Meadowcroft
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  Victoria WoodBrenda
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  Celia ImriePhilippa Moorcroft
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  Andrew DunnTony Martin