Saxondale

Saxondale
UK DVD cover of Saxondale series 1
Created by	Neil Maclennan Steve Coogan
Starring	Steve Coogan Ruth Jones Morwenna Banks Rasmus Hardiker
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer(s)	Baby Cow Productions
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	19 June 2006 – 27 September 2007

Saxondale is a British television situation comedy programme, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage, showing middle-class suburbia.

Produced by Baby Cow Productions, the programme commenced broadcast on BBC Two from 19 June 2006. It features Coogan as Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business. Other principal characters include Saxondale's Welsh girlfriend, Magz (Ruth Jones), and his naïve assistant, Raymond (Rasmus Hardiker). Morwenna Banks, Mark Williams, Greg Davies, Ben Miller (who script-edited the series and also directed the first episode) and Liza Tarbuck also feature. Comedian Matt Berry composed the incidental music for the series and appeared in Tommy's therapy class in two episodes of the second series.

According to a BBC press release, over the course of the series Saxondale "gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute, almost befriends a celebrity, kneecaps an annoying hippie... and experiments with women's makeup." Coogan describes his character as "genuinely witty, while still being a bit of a dick".