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Home Time


This quirky new British comedy takes a look at every adult's worst nightmare: having to move back in with your parents.


It's every adult's worst nightmare: having to move back in with your parents.

When Gaynor (Emma Fryer) was 17 she ran away from her home in the daggy English city of Coventry, but 12 years on she's forced to return when her luck goes south. Everything is as exactly as she left it: her bedroom is still plastered with posters of rock bands, her Oasis tape is still in the stereo (playing 'Wonderwall', of course), and her mum Brenda (Marion McLoughlin) is still as overbearing as ever.

Gaynor is so depressed by how her life has turned out that all she wants to do is mope in her bed, but Mum forces her to get out of the house — dressed in the clothes she abandoned as a teen — as visit her old pals, including the arch Mel (Hayley Jayne Standing), who has a gaggle of kids and still harbours a grudge that Gaynor abandoned her all those years ago.

Home Time is one of those slow, mildly depressing English comedies crammed with neurotic oddballs and won't appeal to everyone. But it's produced by the company behind Gavin and Stacey and The Mighty Boosh, so fans of those series might want to give it a shot.

Home Time airs on ABC2 on Friday, March 12, at 9:45pm.

Sam Downing

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