Love Soup

Love Soup
Genre	Romantic comedy drama
Written by	David Renwick
Starring	Tamsin Greig Sheridan Smith Montserrat Lombard Owen Brenman Michael Landes (Series 1) Trudie Styler (Series 1) Mark Heap (Series 2) Amelia Curtis (Series 2)
Opening theme	"Alley Boogie" by Georgia White
Ending theme	Reprise
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	18 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Renwick Jon Plowman
Producer(s)	Verity Lambert
Running time	60 min. (Series 1) 30 min. (Series 2)
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	27 September 2005 – 17 May 2008
External links
Website

Love Soup is a British television comedy-drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery (a role written especially for her) and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond (Series 1 only). The series is written by David Renwick, and was produced by Verity Lambert. This was the last programme that Lambert produced before she died. The programme was initially a critical success although its audience figures were steady rather than spectacular, netting an average of five million viewers an episode. Renwick and his former scriptwriting partner Andrew Marshall have cameo appearances in one episode as members of a television sitcom scriptwriting team.

The second series started on 1 March 2008 and finished on 17 May 2008. This series contained changes from the first, including a switch from six 60 minute episodes, to twelve of 30 minutes (i.e. nominally the same total of six hours). Although the character of Gil was mentioned throughout the second series, and momentarily seen in the final episode (using a clip of Michael Landes from the previous series), he was not a main character.

The theme tune to Love Soup is "Alley Boogie" by jazz singer Georgia White.

The first series was released on DVD in the UK on 3 December 2007. The second series (and a boxset containing both series) was released on 10 May 2008.

Alice Chenery (Tamsin Greig) and Gil Raymond (Michael Landes) are perfect for each other. They like the same things, respect the same things, and share the same beliefs. The only problem is that they are completely unaware of each other's existence.

Alice is a modern woman with old-fashioned values, who lives in Brighton, and commutes to London, where she is the manageress of a perfume company concession in a department store. She is trying to sell her flat and move, without success. Her love life is no success either. She can never find the perfect man. What is worse, her co-workers, Cleo Martin (Sheridan Smith) and Milly Russel (Montserrat Lombard), always seem to have more success with men, though their relationships never really last more than a week. Cleo and Milly try to pair her up with several men, but to no avail. She does have some family members (at least one cousin), but her parents, Arthur and Grace, are both dead.

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