| Programme: |
Never Better |
| Broadcast: |
2008 (BBC2) |
| Episodes: |
6 (1 series) |
| Starring: |
Stephen Mangan, Kate Ashfield, Tom Goodman-Hill, Neil Fitzmaurice, Charlie George, Taylor Wood, Gerry McCann, Christopher Fairbank |
| Written by: |
Fintan Ryan |
| Produced by: |
Helen Gregory |
| Directed by: |
Martin Dennis |
| Production: |
World Productions  |
| Synopsis: |
Sitcom about an Alcoholics Anonymous attendee.
Keith is the wrong person trying to do the right thing.
A recovering alcoholic in his mid-thirties, he doesn't realise that alcohol was the least of his problems. Indeed, while he manages to stay on the wagon, his sobriety brings crisis and
destruction to those around him.
At his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Keith creates chaos, endangering the recovery of his fellow 12-steppers. At home, his wife and two children have to cope with Keith's new extreme attentiveness and misfiring determination to be a good dad and husband.
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| BSG Review: |
This fairly slow placed sitcom wasn't laugh-a-minute stuff but there's was some enjoyment to be had from it. Watching Keith get himself into awkward social situations was amusing (like spilling coffee on a corpse). But, in our opinion, the problem at the heart of this programme was that, as an audience, we didn't end up feeling particularly sorry for Keith.
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