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Episode 6

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Comedy about a vicar running an inner-city church. After a terrible review of one of his sermons on a Christian website, Adam has a crisis of faith and drunkenly comes on to Ellie.

Meet the Rev Adam Smallbone. He is a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the inner-city world of St Saviour's in east London. It is a world he has little experience of, and it shows.

It is an incredibly difficult job being a good, modern, city vicar. Equally, it is a very hard job being married to one. Alex, Adam's long-suffering wife, does her best to support him, but she has her own career as a solicitor to worry about. Plus she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife.

Every day throws up a moral conflict. All are welcome at St Saviour's and Adam can't turn any of them away, even if they are clearly lying or just plain annoying.

After a terrible review of one of his sermons on a Christian website, Adam has a crisis of faith, which to Alex's surprise seems more serious than his usual biannual episodes of doubt. While he's at home experimenting with leaving the cloth by sitting in his pants watching daytime telly and gambling on the internet, someone else is travelling the parish impersonating a vicar to elicit free beers and avoid parking tickets.

Adam's meltdown reaches a head when he drunkenly comes on to Ellie at a Vicars and Tarts party in aid of the school library, and Alex finally snaps.

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30 minutes

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Last on

Fri 6 May 2011 22:30

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Credits

Role Contributor
The Rev Adam Smallbone Tom Hollander
Alex Smallbone Olivia Colman
Colin Lambert Steve Evets
Nigel McCall Miles Jupp
Archdeacon Robert Simon McBurney
Adoha Onyeka Ellen Thomas
Lisa Katie Males
Chloe Eliza Newman
Policeman Lloyd Javone Prince
Ash Matthew Royer
Ewan Joshua Warner-Campbell
Policeman Ferguson Clive Wedderburn
Director Peter Cattaneo
Producer Kenton Allen
Producer Hannah Pescod
Writer James Wood

Broadcasts

  • Mon 2 Aug 2010 22:00
  • Mon 2 Aug 2010 23:20
  • Thu 5 Aug 2010 23:40
  • Sat 7 Aug 2010 00:05
  • Fri 10 Dec 2010 23:30
  • Fri 6 May 2011 22:30

Behind the Scenes of Rev

Behind the scenes on the first day of shooting series 1 of Rev.