This is not your average family sitcom because the Doonans are not your average family. The show is the story of a dream the dream that one day Simon would leave suburban Reading and move to London to be with the beautiful people. In fact he moved to New York to become the creative director of Barneys an uber-chic fashion store and to write the memoir on which this hugely exuberant comedy is based. It has song dance jokes bitch-fighting drunken hairdressers black posh spice dolls exploding baked bean cans causing death and a soundtrack featuring Dannii and Kylie Minogue... Sophie Ellis Bextor The Pet Shop Boys Sam Wood and Dan Gillespie Sells of The Feeling. Mum and Dad drink homemade wine Simon hangs out with his best friend Kyle better known as Kylie working on dance moves to 90s floor fillers; his sister Ashlene wants to look like Heather Small and hang with the hood whilst his aunty Hayley is blind feisty and eating nuts. Gran meanwhile used to be the nicest woman in the world and has now turned very nasty. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Simon&39;s life growing up in 90s Reading is as crazy as ever as he continues to endure the barmy fantasies of his mum Debbie the Greenham Common nostalgia of blind Aunty Hayley school bullies and the jibes of his sister ShaznayAshlene Luckily for Simon his best friend Kylie shares his mission to escape suburbia and live amongst the glitz & glamour of &39;the beautiful people&39; Starring Luke Ward-Wilkinson Olivia Colman Meera Syal Aidan McArdle Sophie Ash Layton Williams Sarah Niles Tameka Empson and Samuel Barnett this gloriously camp award-winning comedy returns with more fabulous adventures from a "glass-half-full teenage mincing machine with his hands well and truly in the air" With a colourful cocktail of flashbacks musical numbers and fantasy sequences each episode turns back time to explain how Simon became "the Crown Prince well Queen of International Window Dressing" The 1998 Eurovision Song Contest is reborn; a water feature becomes the talk of the town and Simon&39;s parents are involved in four weddings and a crime reconstruction Along the way there are "Gaybours" an Enya impersonator Elaine Paige new uses for the Eiffel tower a psychotic Brit Artist Dana International a dead hairdresser reborn a faux French shopkeeper Dannii Minogue and Simon&39;s first real love interest Maybe &39;the beautiful people&39; were closer to home than he thought? Actors Luke Ward-Wilkinson Samuel Barnett Layton Williams Meera Syal & Olivia Colman Certificate 15 years and over Year 2009 Languages English Duration 3 hours (approx)
All six episodes from the second series of the BBC sitcom following the trials of camp 14-year-old Simon (Luke Ward-Wilkinson), who is doomed to be brought up in suburban Reading circa 1997 when all he wants is to live life among the 'beautiful people'. Surrounded by his ever-so-slightly dysfunctional family, Simon's grand attempts at being outrageous all too often fall on stony ground, propelling him to take ever more drastic actions. The series is based on the childhood recollections of writer and style guru Simon Doonan.
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