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Game On (UK TV series)

Game On
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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).
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)
Production
Producer(s) Geoffrey Perkins
Sioned Wiliam
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Hat Trick Productions
Release
Original network BBC2
Picture format 4:3
Audio format Stereo
Original release 27 February 1995 (1995-02-27) – 6 February 1998 (1998-02-06)

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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