About Saxondale

Saxondale is a sitcom by Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) and Neil Maclennan which focuses on the life of Tommy Saxondale (Coogan). Tommy is a world-travelled ex-roadie with anger-management issues who owns a pest control business in Stevenage.

Produced by Baby Cow Productions and broadcast on BBC2, fourteen episodes of Saxondale have been made so far. The first series made its debut in June 2006 and the second series followed a year later in August 2007.

Tommy Saxondale regards himself as a maverick and a free-thinker and takes every opportunity to impart his wisdom to his young assistant Raymond. As well as Pharaoh ants, mice and occasionally moths, during the sitcom Tommy has to battle with snowboarders, pigeon-loving activists... and people who talk about property prices.

While Tommy enjoys talking about himself, training Raymond in the mysterious and deadly art of pest control, and sharing a few life lessons, Raymond has little choice but to listen. He lives in Tommy's spare room and gets an uncomfortably close view of Tommy and Magz's sparky relationship.

Tommy knows his own mind and isn't afraid to speak it. Unfortunately, those around him don't give him quite the level of respect he feels he deserves!

Vicky, the receptionist who hands out the jobs for Tommy's Stealth Pest Control operation, takes 'banter' to the next level, knowing exactly how to provoke instant frustration... which inevitably results in a few more visits to the anger management course for Tommy.

Series two continued on from where the first ended: Tommy continued to wage war on pests large and small. The main change in series two was the introduction of a number of new secondary characters - these included his neighbour Jonathan (Darren Boyd), Keanu the squatter (Coogan) and Martin the manic depressive (Kevin Eldon).

The incidental music in the show is composed by Matt Berry, as seen on The Mighty Boosh and Darkplace. Berry has had a couple of cameo appearances in Saxondale as the business man Tommy has an argument with in the anger management support group. The title track is by the band Focus.