TV Show directory - Saxondale
Saxondale is a British television situation comedy programme, starring and co-written (with Neil Maclennan) by Steve Coogan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage, showing middle-class suburbia.
Produced by Baby Cow Productions, the programme commenced broadcast on BBC Two from 19 June 2006. It features Coogan as Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business. Other principal characters include Saxondale's Welsh anarchist girlfriend, Magz (Ruth Jones) and his naïve assistant, Raymond (Rasmus Hardiker). British actors Morwenna Banks, Mark Williams, Ben Miller (who script-edited the series and also directed the first episode) and Liza Tarbuck also feature. Comedian Matt Berry composed the incidental music for the series and appeared in Tommy's therapy class in the first episode of the second series.
According to a BBC press release, over the course of the series Saxondale "gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute, almost befriends a celebrity, kneecaps an annoying hippie... and experiments with women's makeup." [1] Coogan describes his character as "genuinely witty, while still being a bit of a dick."
Production Company: BBC
Year of Publication: 2006
