Can you name a tv programme/movie about middle class folk in the north of England?

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There are plenty of middle-class folk in the north, but tv dramas and movies always seem to focus on working class stereotypes. Can you think of any that don't? I mean focus the storyline around mainly middle class characters, not just have one token middle class person. (Happy to be wrong if you guys can come up with a list).

I’d have thought Last of The Summer Wine was working class but I haven’t watched it for 20 years. Compo with his trousers tied up with string and Nora Batty in her housecoat sweeping the steps of her little terrace 🤷🏻‍♀️

Spender

Cold Feet

That was set in suffolk

Yes I'd have thought this too

Hollyoaks?

I've seen something trailered on bbc recently, filmed in Leeds. Unfortunately I was so busy saying "that's next to work" that I don't remember what it was called.

Was it 'Better'?

New street law I think?

Emmerdale.

The weird hairdresser salon show with robson green about 5ish years ago

'The Stranger' was centred around middle class northerners

It's dicey ground suggesting that Derbyshire is north!

I think Clegg was the token MC character.

I might mean Foggy.

But defo not Compo.

True. I’m further north and I’m borderline. But I’m sure that most southern scriptwriters would think that the Peak District is north. I can’t actually remember where in the Peak District it was set, My feeling is that the northern Peak District is northern.

You've all said the ones I thought of first (Cold Feet, Last Tango etc), but has anyone mentioned Peak Practice?

Yeah, Compo kept a ferret down his trousers, about as much a caricature of a working class northerner as you can get. Someone had a whippet as well and it was flat cap central.

I’ve googled now and peak practice was filmed round Ambergate, so I’d agree not northern.

It's interesting how many of these are a class mixture.

I used to love All Quiet on the Preston Front (became Preston Front) and also A Bit of a Do, set in Lancashire and Yorkshire respectively. Both had mixed ensemble casts but A Bit of a Do particularly was mostly MC characters.

Also - going back a bit was The Onedin Line set in `Liverpool about shipowners. Surely the epitome of MCness.

Literally every single one of the Harlan Coben dramatisations on Netflix was filmed on my old road in Manchester.

I read this and was going to say has anyone said Peak Practice, then kept scrolling and realised I did six months ago! 😆

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