Father Figure (TV series)
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| Genre | |
| Written by | Jason Byrne |
| Directed by | Nick Wood |
| Theme music composer | Mcasso |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Stephen McCrum |
| Producer(s) | Julia McKenzie |
| Location(s) | Hertfordshire |
| Editor(s) | Mark Lawrence |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Production |
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| Original release | 18 September – 23 October 2013 |
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Father Figure is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 September 2013. In Ireland the series first aired on RTÉ Two in September 2013. The six-part series was written by Jason Byrne and directed by Nick Wood.
In June 2013, filming began on the comedy series at Elstree Studios and ended on 11 July 2013. The studio scenes were filmed in front of a studio audience.
Overnight figures showed that the first episode was watched by 11.5% of the viewing audience for that time, with 1.37 million watching it. The second episode was watched by 12.3% of the viewing audience. The third episode was watched by 10.4% of the viewing audience.
The series received mostly negative reviews. Catherine Gee of The Daily Telegraph gave it one out of five stars and said: "All of it was implausible, but, that’s not really the point. We don’t need our comedy to be plausible. Peep Show was rarely plausible, neither was Blackadder, nor Red Dwarf, nor Fawlty Towers, but that didn’t stop them being funny. What we need is for these implausible situations to be delivered with wit, brilliant timing and a superbly funny script. Father Figure failed on every count."The Herald said: "Showing a silly, childish and almost entirely innocent sitcom like Father Figure (BBC One, Wednesday, 11.35pm) so late at night is weird. ... Father Figure is not bad. It's very not bad. In fact, if you're a fan of silent comedy, it's rather good. Indeed, much of the first episode is so reminiscent of silent comedy routines that Jason Byrne might have created a new genre: silent comedy with sound." The Daily Express commented: "It gives me great pleasure to announce that the BBC has broadcast a “sitcom” which is worse than Big Top. ... At the outset, I should confess that I did laugh, just once, after which I continued to watch in horror".
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