Game On (BBC television)
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Shot of the second and third series cast, left-to-right: Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle), Amanda "Mandy" Wilkins (Samantha Womack née Janus), and Matthew Malone (Neil Stuke).
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| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Created by | Andrew Davies and Bernadette Davis |
| Starring |
Ben Chaplin (series 1) Matthew Cottle Samantha Janus Neil Stuke (series 2 & 3) |
| Opening theme | "Where I Find My Heaven" by Gigolo Aunts |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) |
Geoffrey Perkins Sioned Wiliam |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hat Trick Productions |
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| Original network | BBC2 |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 27 February 1995 – 6 February 1998 |
Game-On, (alternatively Two Men and a Blonde in Finland and The Game of Life in Portugal) was a British sitcom which ran for three series, and aired on BBC2 from 27 February 1995 to 6 February 1998.
The central characters are three childhood friends from Herne Bay in Kent; laddish agorophobe Matthew Malone (Ben Chaplin in the first series and Neil Stuke in the second and third), man-eater Amanda "Mandy" Wilkins (Samantha Womack née Janus), and wimpish Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle). When into their twenties, the trio move into and share a flat in Battersea, south-west London, which Matthew bought with his inheritance, and the series follows their lives as flatmates.
Created and written by Andrew Davies and Bernadette Davis, and produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, Game On was aimed at twenty-somethings, the same age group as the principal cast of the show.
The title, originally derived from a stock screen term used by 1980s early computer video games to initiate a competitive encounter, was taken from English urban slang speech of the 1990s lad culture of which the principal character Matthew Malone was an exemplar. It was directed by John Stroud, produced by Sioned Wiliam and the BBC Television Head of Comedy Geoffrey Perkins, and executive produced by Denise O'Donohue on behalf of Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.
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