TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
Drama
Love Soup
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC1 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 2282
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described
1/6 - There Must Be Some Way Out of Here
Here's a television rarity - a sweet, occasionally barbed, romantic comedy with a heart, made even more appealing by its highly likeable central characters. So, a bit of a departure then for David Renwick, the writer who gave the world One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek. Alice (Tamsin Greig) and Gil (Michael Landes) are a couple you feel are destined to fall in love, if they only were ever to meet. They worry about the same things, share the same insecurities and are both troubled by our increasingly boorish world.
Meanwhile, we follow them through their daily lives and their separate, disastrous attempts to find love with the wrong people. Alice takes a shine to a warm, handsome locksmith, while Gil, a screenwriter, seems to be on to a sure thing with an attractive TV producer. There are some dark flavours of bitter unhappiness in Love Soup - most of them supplied by Gil's barmy, sad neighbour (played by Trudie Styler).
RT reviewer: Alison Graham
Alice Chenery - Tamsin Greig
Gil Raymond - Michael Landes
Cleo Martin - Sheridan Smith
Milly Russell - Montserrat Lombard
Irene - Trudie Styler
Bob - Brian Protheroe
Julie Pirelli - Olivia Poulet
Frank - Terence Denville
Siobhan - Alison Pargeter
Clive - Neil Roberts {he is one of our friends - }
Gina Massey - Jo-Anne Stockham
Silver Man - Matthew Walters
Lucy - Victoria Gay
Adam Coates - Darren Boyd
Jeffrey Blunstone - David Collier
Greg - Mark Wakeling