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A riotous sitcom about a mother battling to get her adult children to leave home
In this wonderful, fraught, witty, real comedy about a middle-aged mother desperate to begin her post-children life, Stella is wondering why those grown-up children are all still in her house. Dreaming of retiring to a life in the countryside with her husband, instead she's dealing with four extra people in the house, rooms that urgently need de-junking, surprise pregnancy tests, difficult neighbours and a mother who really isn't helping anything.
When she attempts to clear the useless clutter from the house, Stella realises it's her children who really need to go; if she can't move to the country, then she's going to make sure the country will move to her; and when it finally seems like at least one child is moving out, that's the perfect moment for Stella's mother to decide she's moving in. Stella feels like the family chaos will never end...
Cast
Penny Downie - Stella (Series 1 & 2)
Pippa Haywood - Stella (Series 3)
Duncan Preston - Patrick
Claudie Blakley - Alison
Bruce MacKinnon - Rick
Catherine Shepherd - Xanthe
Daniela Denby-Ashe - Egg
Rita Davies - Mother
Russell Bently - Fergus
Production credits
Written by Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson
Produced and Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
Originally broadcast August-September 2003 (Series 1), November-December 2004 (Series 2) and January-February 2006 (Series 3)
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