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/ Wednesdays @ 9.35pm
How
many catchphrases does a show need, well when they are this good as many
as it likes of course, so am I bovvered. No way. This is the second
season of the Tate show, she is fantastically funny and absolutely
inhabits the characters she plays whether that be an old lady or a
middle aged gay man.
This
brilliantly observed series takes characters from everyday life,
parodied to the extreme, as the talented actress morphs through ages,
accents and wigs. New characters include Moo Shepherd, a very
competitive dog trainer; Ivan and Trudy, proprietors of a celebrity wig
emporium; a woman who constantly puts her foot in it at parties; Derek,
an obviously gay man in denial about his sexuality; and a woman who
often experiences difficulties with flatulence.
A
graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal National
Theatre, London-born Catherine Tate spent a year with the Royal
Shakespeare Company before turning her hand to stand-up comedy. She
appeared in the Channel 4 sketch show Barking , That Peter Kay Thing and
The Harry Hill Show and later Big Train and Attention Scum. |
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being spottined by a casting director while performing stand-up at the
Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Tate was offered the co-starring role of
Angela in the Dawn French vehicle Wild West and, soon after filming
wrapped, her own sketch show on BBC2, The Catherine Tate Show, was
commissioned.
The
show earned Catherine a British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2004,
and a BAFTA nomination in 2005. She has since appeared in second series
of both Wild West and her own show, and also made her mark in two
serious dramas, the BBC’s critically acclaimed 2005 adaptation of
Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, adapted by Andrew Davies, (Catherine
played Mrs Chadband), and ITV’s Marple: A Murder Is Announced .
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