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Nighty Night is a BBC Television comedy with a black edge to its humour. The first series was shown on BBC Three and later on BBC Two from January 2004. It returned for a second series on BBC Three in 2005. It airs in the US on the Oxygen network. In Australia, Series one was aired on ABC, however the public broadcaster said it received complaints and the second series was aired on SBS. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Plot
First Series In the first scene of the series, Jill sits in a doctor's office with her husband Terry (played by Kevin Eldon) having just been told the test results. Jill, teary-eyed and with her head in her hands, exclaims "I mean why, why me?" Her husband turns to her comfortingly, and says, "Jill. Lets keep this in perspective. It's me that's got the cancer." Eldon as evil hypnotist in Big Train Kevin Eldon ( b. ...
Immediately after her husband begins cancer treatment, Jill goes to a computer dating agency to find another man, seemingly happy to know her husband will probably die.
Jill uses her status as cancer widow (despite Terry being still alive) to gain maximum sympathy from those who work in her suburban beauty salon, and from the quiet well-to-do couple who live across the street from her. Don (Angus Deayton of One Foot In The Grave and KYTV) is a family doctor and his wife is Cath (Rebecca Front - The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowing You), who has multiple sclerosis and often uses a wheelchair. Jill eventually moves in with Don and Cath, flirting with their son David and trying to break up their marriage and sleep with Don, all the while playing the sympathy card with Cath. Gordon Angus Deayton (born January 6, 1956) is an English comic actor and television presenter. ...
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Jill occasionally visits her husband in hospital, where he is responding well to cancer treatment, in order to put her own spin on the good news from the doctors to leave Terry with the impression that he is really dying. When Jill finds out Terry has been cured, she takes him to a hospice and tells all her friends that he has died, resulting in a twisted funeral where Jill gets all the attention.
Jill dresses as Don's former mistress Sandra to try to grab his attention, and prepares a meal for him while Cath is out. Don does not know anything about this and is pleasantly surprised. Later, Jill bends down, pretends to be incapable of moving and asks for Don's help. As Don is pulling her up from the ground, Cath enters and gets the wrong impression, to Don's irritation.
Running out of excuses for the ever-curious Terry, Jill is forced to take him home. She treats him badly, but says that she is doing it only to make him better. Then she meets a rich simpleton by the name of Glen through the dating agency (he describes his personality as 'Scottish'), and she pretends to fall in love with him, though really she despises him. She announces to everyone that she and Glen are to get married right away.
Cath and Don later put forward their plans to move to Hopperton, but when Jill hears of this she throws a farewell coffee evening for them, livening it up by performing a pole dance with the locals in the house watching. The Hopperton Nuns are also at the house and are duly shocked by Jill's antics. Meanwhile Don has become extremely drunk at the coffee evening and Cath announces she has had enough and is moving to Hopperton on her own; she departs, leaving Don confused. During the party Linda sees Terry and thinks it's his ghost trying to tell her to confess all, so Linda tells Jill about her affair and is knocked down by Jill. After the party Jill goes back to her place and smothers Terry with a cushion just as a confused and tired Don enters. There Don vomits and opens a door to find Jill lying on her bed. Don, just wanting to lie down and too tired to be bothered, falls into Jill's arms on her bed.
When things start to spiral out of control and Jill realises she is about to be found out, she confesses everything to Glen at the Vicar's kitchen. She puts poison in some cups of Angel Delight and shares them with the Vicar and Glen. She encourages the Vicar to eat some and so he drops dead. She then tells Glen that if he loves her he would agree to take the blame for the vicar's death. He agrees and phones up the police to confess to the murder and also unwittingly confesses to the murder of Terry. This done, Jill 'shares' the Angel Delight with Glen, making him eat some first. When it's her turn, she exclaims "I'm not really hungry".
Glen takes the blame for the Vicar and Terry's deaths, while Jill gets away to pursue Don.
Second Series Having framed Glen for the events of Series One, Jill, still infatuated with Don, pursues him and Cath to Cornwall (filmed in and around Bude) where they are trying to get the marriage to work at a health centre called The Trees. Jill sets off to Cornwall with Linda after discovering Cath and Don's address from Sue, with Linda accidentally pulling the life support plug hooked up to Gordon, killing him. They accidentally run over a black woman by the name of Floella Umbagabe, who just so happens to be starting a job at the health centre. Cath still has unresolved feelings towards Jill for her night of drunken passion with Don, who is enjoying life as a surfer dude. Jill manages to worm her way back into the Cole household and infiltrate their damaged marriage yet again, after disposing of Don's girlfriend, Natalie, Jill discovers Cath has a crush on her marriage therapist Jacques and pushes her to move in on him (so as Jill could get to Don) Cathy later becomes pregnant with Don's baby which makes Jill try to get pregnant, but fakes it, claiming that Cath and Don's twelve year old son Bruce raped her. Cath is doubtful but Jill manages to pull it off... for a while. A widowed Sue comes to stay with the new vicar, Arno, Sue is still depressed with Gordan's death and runs in to Vicar Arno's arms (and his bed) for comfort.
After Vicar Arno is convicted, and Cath's baby girl Abigail is born, Don can no longer resist the temptation that Sue has and privately saids to her that he wants to be with her and that he wants to move to Spain with her to start a new life. Jill overhears and thinks Don is talking about her, but Glen catches up with her armed with a gun, Jill soon convinces him that she wants him and that she's pregnant with his baby. After Jill claims she's given birth, Cath tries to look and soon Jill's web of lies catch up with her and she is chased to a cliff where Cath confronts her about her fake pregnancy, Cath and Jill begin to fight, in the heat of it, Cath's wheelchair is hurled off the cliff and lands on Sue who is below engaging in an affair with Don, Sue is left severely injured, with Don left confused as to what's happened. During the fight, Jill slips off the edge off the cliff, but lands on a trampoline below and bounces off, landing on Don. Jill rides off in a boat, with her husband Glen hanging off on a rubber ring and Don next to her who is severely brain damaged.
Series two, although at some points darker and more risqué than Series One, didn't achieve the same success upon first airing on BBC Three. It was widely seen as having eschewed the subtle humour of the first series in favour of more conspicuously outrageous set pieces. However, there are many who think the second series is much funnier than the first. There is also an excellent soundtrack, consisting of many classic rock songs from the 70s and 80s, which adds to the holiday/surfing feel of the second series. Some of the out-takes/deleted scenes from the second series are also extremely funny - 'I've brought some prezzies. Sorry Karen prezzies'. Which turn out to be typically un-generous in typical Jill style - a complimentary sachet of shampoo and a used pair of tights. Continuing also from the first series are catch-phrases and one-liners such as the disdainful 'How many of those have you had Sue?', referring to the busty Sue 2's frequent eating of biscuits and cakes, 'Hug for Jill', 'We'll settle up now or it just gets nasty' and 'Hi Cath!!' - Jill invariably manages to turn up in Cath's presence. We are also told by Jill that Linda has the equivalent IQ of a 'sausage dog'!
Music Freatured in the Series A soundtrack to the series was never officially released. Following is a list of music tracks featured in the series: - First It Giveth by Queens of the Stone Age
- My Name Is Nobody by Ennio Morricone
- Let There Be Love by Matt Munro
- Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britany Spears
- Pure Shores by All Saints
- Don't Need The Sun To Shine by Gabrielle
- Lavender by Marillion
- In Demand by Texas
- Walking Away by Craig David
- Scandalous by Mis-Teeq
- Lifted by The Lighthouse Family
- No Matter What by Boyzone
- Your Love Is King by Sade
- The Sweetest Taboo by Sade
- Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake
- Tiger Feet by Mud
- Bootie Call by All Saints
- Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D
- Lady (Hear Me Tonight) by Modjo
- It Ain't Over Till It's Over by Lenny Kravitz
- One Night Stand by Mis-teeq
- 7 Days by Craig David
- Imagination by Belouis Some
- Like I Like You by Justin Timberlake
- Thank You by Dido
- Do You Really Want To Hurt Me by Culture Club
- I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders
- Boom, boom, boom by The Vengaboys
- Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue
- Martha's Harbour by All About Eve
- Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple
- More Than A Feeling by Boston
- Africa by Toto
- Since You've Ben Gone by Rainbow
- Black Betty by Ram Jam
- Hold The Line by Toto
- Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynrd
- I'm Like A Bird by Nelly Furtado
- Keep On Loving You by REO Speedwagon
- My Sharona by The Knack
- Moving On Up by M People
- More Than Words by Extreme
- This Love by Maroon 5
- Never Take Me Alive by Spear Of Destiny
- Jolene by Dolly Parton
- Requiem by Mozart
Most of these tracks can be downloaded via I-Tunes.
Cast Jill Tyrell is a fictional character in the BBC Three Comedy Series Nighty Night, she was portrayed by Julia Davis. ...
Julia Davis (born 1966) is an English comedy writer and performer. ...
Gordon Angus Deayton (born January 6, 1956) is an English comic actor and television presenter. ...
Rebecca Front (born June 28, 1965) is a British comedian and actress. ...
Eldon as evil hypnotist in Big Train Kevin Eldon ( b. ...
Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966) is an English actor and writer. ...
// Ruth Jones (born in 1966 at Bridgend, Wales) is a bilingual character actress perhaps best known for her performances in British comedy series and films. ...
Michael Fenton Stevens is a UK actor and comedian, member of the Hee Bee Gee Bees and the voice behind the Spitting Image number 1 hit in 1986, The Chicken Song. ...
Felicity Montagu is a British actor, probably best known for her performances in television comedy series and films. ...
Louie Ann Batley[1] (born 2 January 1987 in Chorley, Lancashire) is an English actress best known for her role in Hollyoaks as Sarah Barnes. ...
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Critical reception The first series won a Banff Award and Davis won a Royal Television Society Award for her performance and got a highly positive reception from TV critics. See also the IMDB's Nighty Night Awards page. The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...
- "An exquisitely vile comic creation [...] The Office might have popularised the comedy of embarrassment, but Nighty Night has moved it on." [1] - The Guardian
- "a blistering wall of superbly unredeemed cruelty that manages to trample over every social convention in a pair of cheap stilettos." [2] - The Times
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