Grumpy Old Women
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For the live show, see Grumpy Old Women Live
Grumpy Old Women is a British
television series, continuing in the same vein as its predecessor, Grumpy Old Men
. Both programmes are shown on BBC Two
. The first two series were narrated by Alison Steadman
, and the third by Judith Holder (who is the 'grumpy old woman' in the clips). The show started as a special one-off Christmas special; however, because of its popularity, it spawned a regular series, a book (see below) and stage show.
In June 2006 Grumpy Old Women, together with Grumpy Old Men began a new series called Grumpy Old Holidays in which they talk about the irritations connected with holiday making.
The First Series (2005) also included:
The Second Series (2006) also included:
The Third series (2007) also included:
In 2005, a live show was formed, and went on a sell out national tour, as well as a spell in Australia.
Grumpy Old Women Live
Grumpy Old Women Live is a stage show based on the series BBC television series Grumpy Old Women.-Inception:The idea of a live show of Grumpy Old Women, which had already been successful on the television, came about in Spring 2005 to producer Judith Holder and Grumpy contributor Jenny Eclair, and...
Grumpy Old Women is a British
United Kingdom
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television series, continuing in the same vein as its predecessor, Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men (TV series)
Grumpy Old Men is a conversational-style television programme on BBC2 which debuted in 2003, The first run of four programmes was repeated several times before a second series, also of four episodes, was shown in 2004. A third series aired in April 2006. There were also 2003 & 2004 Christmas...
. Both programmes are shown on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
. The first two series were narrated by Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman OBE is an English actress. She established her career with roles such as Beverley in Abigail's Party and Candice Marie in Nuts in May for the director Mike Leigh, to whom she was once married. In addition to her stage and radio work, she has had lead roles in The Singing Detective,...
, and the third by Judith Holder (who is the 'grumpy old woman' in the clips). The show started as a special one-off Christmas special; however, because of its popularity, it spawned a regular series, a book (see below) and stage show.
In June 2006 Grumpy Old Women, together with Grumpy Old Men began a new series called Grumpy Old Holidays in which they talk about the irritations connected with holiday making.
Guests
The Xmas Special (2004) included:- Janet Street-PorterJanet Street-PorterJanet Street-Porter is a British media personality, journalist and television presenter. She was editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday. She relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002...
- Jenni Trent HughesJenni Trent HughesJenni Trent Hughes is an American life strategist, coach and agony aunt, who specialises in relationships and family issues. She is also a successful TV and radio broadcaster, author and magazine columnist. Although born in Jamaica, Hughes now lives and works mainly in the UK.Her career began, and...
- Jane MooreJane MooreJane Moore is a British journalist, author and television presenter.-Early life:Moore was born in Oxford, England. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher...
- Jenny Eclair
- Rachel Coker
- Linda RobsonLinda RobsonLinda Patricia Mary Robson is an English actress. She played Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998.-Personal life and education:...
- Lesley JosephLesley JosephLesley D Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster.-Life and career:Joseph was born in Northampton. She is best known for starring in the BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989–1998, in which she played Dorien Green, the Jewish next-door neighbour of the main characters Sharon and Tracy...
- Ann WiddecombeAnn WiddecombeAnn Noreen Widdecombe is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000. She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010. She was a social conservative and a member of...
- Maureen LipmanMaureen LipmanMaureen Diane Lipman CBE is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.-Early life:Lipman was born in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father was a tailor; he used to have a shop between the...
- Dillie KeaneDillie KeaneLouise M. "Dillie" Keane is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedienne. She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aida since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.-Theatre and Fascinating Aida:Keane was nominated for a...
- Arabella WeirArabella WeirArabella Weir is a British comedian, actress and writer.The daughter of former British ambassador Sir Michael Weir, she is best known for her roles in The Fast Show and for writing several books including the international best seller Does My Bum Look Big In This? Arabella Weir (born 6 December...
- Germaine GreerGermaine GreerGermaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....
- Sheila HancockSheila HancockSheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...
- Jilly CooperJilly CooperJilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.-Early life:Jilly Sallitt was born in Hornchurch,...
- Michele Hanson
- Kathryn FlettKathryn FlettKathryn Flett is a British TV critic, author, and star of the BBC's Grumpy Old Women series, was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, and Hammersmith and West London College....
The First Series (2005) also included:
- Bonnie GreerBonnie GreerBonnie Greer, OBE is an American-British playwright and critic.-Early life:Greer's father was born to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers. He was stationed in the UK during World War II and took part in the D-Day landings...
- India KnightIndia KnightIndia Knight is a British journalist and author. She is known for her contribution to the British media, as well as her books: My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me?, The Shops, Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet and The Thrift Book , all of which are published by Penguin books...
- Angie Le MarAngie Le MarAngie Le Mar is a British comedian, actor, writer, director, presenter and producer.Le Mar is married with three children. The eldest, Travis Jay, is a budding comedian and radio DJ.-Early life:...
- Nina MyskowNina MyskowNina Myskow is a British journalist and TV celebrity who appeared on New Faces and was also a columnist for The Sun and The News of the World under the byline "The Bitch on the box" in the 1980s...
The Second Series (2006) also included:
- Stephanie BeachamStephanie BeachamStephanie Beacham is a British television, film and theatre actress. Making her film debut in 1971's The Nightcomers opposite Marlon Brando and becoming more well-known on British television in the BBC series Tenko and the ITV series Connie , her worldwide breakthrough came as a result of playing...
- Annette CrosbieAnnette CrosbieAnnette Crosbie, OBE is a Scottish character actor.-Life and career:Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actor. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens...
- Muriel GrayMuriel GrayMuriel Gray is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.-Personal life:Gray is of partly Jewish ancestry...
- Indira JoshiIndira JoshiIndira Joshi is a British actress of Indian ethnicity. She has appeared in episodes of many well-known British dramas, including Holby City, Doctors, All About Me, The Bill and Coronation Street. However, she is probably best known for her role as Madhuri Kumar in the spoof chat show The Kumars at...
- Helen LedererHelen LedererHelen Lederer is a Welsh comedienne, writer and actress who emerged as part of the alternative comedy boom at the beginning of the 1980s.-Career:...
- Aggie MacKenzieAggie MacKenzieAgnes MacKenzie , is a Scottish television presenter. She is most prominently known for co-presenting the Channel 4 series How Clean Is Your House? with Kim Woodburn.-Biography:...
- Esther RantzenEsther RantzenEsther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...
- Pam St Clement
- Kim WoodburnKim WoodburnKim Woodburn is an English television presenter and expert cleaner who is best known for co-presenting the British television programme How Clean Is Your House? and in 2007, starred in the Canadian series Kim's Rude Awakenings.-Early career:Woodburn undertook many jobs in her adult life...
The Third series (2007) also included:
- Lynn BarberLynn BarberLynn Barber is a British journalist, who writes for The Sunday Times.-Early life:Barber attended Lady Eleanor Holles School...
- Sheila FergusonSheila FergusonSheila Ferguson is an American singer, and was one of the longest serving singers of 1970s American female soul music group The Three Degrees.Ferguson settled in the UK after marrying an Englishman...
- Lynne FranksLynne FranksLynne Franks founded one of the UK’s best-known public relations consultancies in the early 1970s and is currently an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women’s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles....
- Charlie HardwickCharlie HardwickClaire Elizabeth Hardwick is an English actress well known for her part in ITV's Emmerdale as Val Pollard.-Acting career:...
- Fiona PhillipsFiona PhillipsFiona Phillips is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.-Early life:Phillips was born in Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 1961. Her grandparents ran the Duke's Head pub in Church Street St. Paul's. Phillips attended Kingsmead Primary School...
- Eve PollardEve PollardEvelyn "Eve" Pollard, Lady Lloyd, OBE is an English author, journalist and a former editor of several tabloid newspapers.-Career:...
Series One
| Ep No | Prod Code | Original Air Date | Episode Title | Episode Synopsis | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1x01 | CHOL01 | 21/12/04 | The Christmas Special | Coming Soon | 8.9 Million (12% Of Share) |
| 1x02 | 1GOWO01 | 25/02/05 | It's All Falling Apart | Coming Soon | 4.6 Million (7% Of Share) |
| 1x03 | 1GOWO02 | 04/03/05 | Life's No Fun Anymore | Coming Soon | 5.2 Million (9% Of Share) |
| 1x04 | 1GOWO03 | 11/03/05 | Boiling Point | Coming Soon | 6.7 Million (5% Of Share) |
| 1x05 | 1GOWO04 | 18/03/05 | Stuck In The Middle | 9.8 Million (14% Of Share) |
Series Two
| Ep No | Prod Code | Original Air Date | Episode Title | Episode Synopsis | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2x01 | 2GOWO01 | 26/05/06 | Hard Work | Coming Soon | 3.4 Million (5% Of Share) |
| 2x02 | 2GOWO02 | 02/06/06 | Call Me Old Fashioned | Coming Soon | 11.4 Million (18% Of Share) |
| 2x03 | 2GOWO03 | 09/06/06 | Am I Bothered? | Coming Soon | 10.9 Million (16% Of Share) |
| 2x04 | 2GOWO04 | 16/06/06 | High Anxiety | Coming Soon | 12.7 Million (14% Of Share) |
| 2x05 | 2GOWO05 | 23/06/06 | Stuck In The Middle, Redux | 13.2 Million (17% Of Share) |
Series Three
| Ep No | Prod Code | Original Air Date | Episode Title | Episode Synopsis | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x01 | 3GOWO01 | 03/08/07 | It's Just Everything | How computers run everyday life. | |
| 3x02 | Beat The Clock | ||||
| 3x03 | My Family and Other Animals | ||||
| 3x04 | This Wasn't Going to Happen to You |
Live Show
for more information, see Grumpy Old Women LiveGrumpy Old Women Live
Grumpy Old Women Live is a stage show based on the series BBC television series Grumpy Old Women.-Inception:The idea of a live show of Grumpy Old Women, which had already been successful on the television, came about in Spring 2005 to producer Judith Holder and Grumpy contributor Jenny Eclair, and...
In 2005, a live show was formed, and went on a sell out national tour, as well as a spell in Australia.