Home Time | |
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Genre | Comedy-drama |
Written by |
Emma Fryer Neil Edmond |
Directed by | Christine Gernon |
Starring |
Emma Fryer Marian McLoughlin Philip Jackson Hayley Jayne Standing Kerry Godliman Rebekah Staton |
Narrated by |
Gaynor Jacks played by Emma Fryer |
Opening theme | "Hometown Unicorn" by Super Furry Animals |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Henry Normal Lindsay Hughes |
Producer(s) | Ted Dowd |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) |
BBC Baby Cow Productions |
Release | |
Original network | BBC Two |
Original release | 14 September | – 22 October 2009
Home Time is a British television comedy-drama written by and starring Emma Fryer with Neil Edmond co-writing. The first series ran between 14 September and 22 October 2009 on BBC Two.
Home Time is set and filmed in the industrial city of Coventry, England.
Gaynor Jacks has come home. Home to Coventry, home to her mum and dad's house, home to the three best friends who called her mad for ever leaving. At 17 she ran off to find her place in the big wide world, but now she's back - at 29 - with her tail between her legs and not so much as a starter home to show for her troubles. Gaynor can't hide forever in her tiny time-capsule bedroom with its Trainspotting poster peeling above the single bed and Wonderwall still paused on the CD player. She must crawl back into the life she left behind, suffering the gleeful sympathy of her friends and ill-judged parental intrusions, all played out in front of old flames and adversaries she thought she'd never see again, and underscored by smirking cries of 'See you're back then'.
Home Time received a positive critical response, The Guardian describing it as "a brilliant, sophisticated, low-key show" and "as smart and original as it is sad and funny",The Mirror as an "understated, subtle and very clever comedy",Heat as "The best new comedy on the BBC for a long time" and the Financial Times felt that it "attained the same balance of tenderness and acuity that has characterised so many of the greatest British sitcoms, from Porridge to The Office".
Home Time was also nominated for Best Sitcom at both the 2010 South Bank Show Awards and The Rose D'Or.
Home Time Was Released On DVD On 22 August 2011