Kay Mellor
Director
Fat Friends (2000)
Season 2
Fat Friends is an ITV drama created by Kay Mellor, broadcast from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005. It follows a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. It examines people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four cast members—Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith, and Alison Steadman—went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
Released Oct. 12, 2000
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.northern-england, tmdb.overweight, tmdb.diet, tmdb.yorkshire, imdb.slimming-club, imdb.weight, imdb.support-group + 9 more, imdb.male-escort, imdb.obesity, imdb.weight-loss, imdb.marital-separation, imdb.escort-service, imdb.bullying, imdb.infertility, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.tiger-aspect
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Production Companies: Yorkshire Television, Tiger Aspect Productions, Rollem Productions
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Full Belly
Carol faces her own problems when her husband leaves, leaving her alone with her son. Things take a darker turn when she decides to go on a diet.
Sept. 5, 2002, midnight
S2E3 - Forty and In-Faturated
Birthday blues are the least of Val's problems. Mistrust, jealousy, and insecurity turn her world upside down after she confronts her male escort lover about what he gets up to with his clients.
Sept. 19, 2002, midnight
S2E4 - Sweet and Sour
The arrival of divorce papers send Alan's blood pressure rocketing, with the result that he fails a medical and loses his job.
Sept. 26, 2002, midnight
S2E2 - Peaches and Dreams
Now unemployed, Lauren is seeking Mr Right after splitting up with commitment-phobic Gareth. What's not helpful is her sister's happy marriage and pregnancy making Lauren all too aware of her single status.
Sept. 12, 2002, midnight
S2E5 - Sticky Fingers
Jamie thinks his fortunes have changed when he makes the acquaintance of secondhand car dealer Craig. He spends his birthday money on flash clothes and a mobile phone in a desperate bid to fit in with Craig's friends, but soon realises his new friend is a shady operator with a criminal past — can his policeman father help him cut his ties with the shady crowd?
Oct. 3, 2002, midnight
S2E6 - In Full Bloom
Despite being overweight, Rebecca Patterson is generally content with life – particularly with her job as assistant manager at a garden centre that allows her to work alongside the man she secretly adores. But the shy and retiring twentysomething's cosy world is shattered by the return of a figure from her past, who proceeds to subject her to cruel psychological tortures.
Oct. 10, 2002, midnight
S2E7 - Hunger Pangs
Betty's already stressful life takes another twist when her childhood sweetheart joins the slimming club, prompting the return of long-suppressed feelings and revelations about a dark secret from her past.
Oct. 17, 2002, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1500 min.
Released: Oct. 12, 2000
Last Air Date: March 24, 2005, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: 15
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