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Beautiful People goes into production for 大象传媒 Two
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Starring Meera Syal in her first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42, and Olivia Colman from That Mitchell And Webb Look and the BAFTA award-winning Peep Show, Beautiful People goes into production for transmission later this year on 大象传媒 Two.
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It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric.
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Mum Debbie (played by Olivia Colman) is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen.
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Then there's family lodger blind Aunty Hayley (Meera Syal) and lobotomised grandma Narg (gran backwards) who lost God and found a foul mouth.
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Based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan, the sitcom follows his childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the Beautiful People - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.
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Alongside Meera Syal and Olivia Colman the cast includes Aidan McArdle (Not Only But Always), Layton Williams (Billy Elliot in the West End) and Samuel Barnett (The History Boys). Thirteen-year-old Luke Ward-Wilkinson (Wild At Heart) plays young Simon.
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The series is written by Jonathan Harvey whose previous credits include Gimme Gimme Gimme (大象传媒 Two) and Beautiful Thing.
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Beautiful People is commissioned by Controller of 大象传媒 Two, Roly Keating, and Lucy Lumsden, Controller of Comedy Commissioning.
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The series' executive producer is Jon Plowman (Absolutely Fabulous) and it is produced by Justin Davies.
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