December 24, 2008
Wednesday 24 December
10.00-11.00pm BBC ONE
It’s Christmas Eve and the Wests join the Shipmans for one of Mick’s famous turkey dinners, as the award-winning Gavin & Stacey comes to BBC One for a special festive episode.
Smithy can’t wait to spend his first Christmas with baby Neil, but doesn’t count on Dave Coaches tagging along and playing happy families with Nessa. Jason and Bryn, meanwhile, have a heart-to-heart about “that” fishing trip and Gavin and Stacey’s revelation to Pam and Smithy doesn’t quite turn out to be the Christmas present they were expecting.
Mick is played by Larry Lamb, Smithy by James Corden, Dave Coaches by Steffan Rhodri, Nessa by Ruth Jones, Jason by Robert Wilford, Bryn by Rob Brydon, Gavin by Mathew Horne, Stacey by Joanna Page and Pam by Alison Steadman. Melanie Walters also stars as Gwen.
Gavin & Stacey is simulcast on BBC HD – the BBC’s High Definition channel available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media. With up to five times more detail than standard definition television, HD provides exceptionally vivid colours and crisp pictures to make Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special a truly cinematic TV experience.
March 8, 2008
The award-winning BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey is about to return. Its creators tell Jasper Rees what inspired it
‘When we met those girls on the train the other day they went, ‘Oh yeah, what’s that thing you did? Kevin and Tracey or something?’”
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Ruth Jones is sanguine about the impact of Gavin and Stacey. The comedy series, which Jones co-wrote and appeared in, about a whirlwind romance between a sweet Welsh girl from Barry and a nice Essex boy from Billericay, may recently have won two British Comedy awards and a South Bank Show award.
But the fact that it was shown on BBC3 meant that, after its first outing, most people didn’t know Gavin and Stacey from Adam and Eve.
“I kind of feel that the show doesn’t exclude anyone,” says Jones’s co-writer James Corden, “and that people up and down the country could watch it.”
But then, as he ruefully admits: “A lot of them haven’t.” However, a week ago, Corden’s dream of mass exposure came true.