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The Job Lot (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Martin Dennis
Richard Laxton

Written By:
Lane Stuart
Claire Downes

Actors:
Sarah Hadland ..... Trish Collingwood
Russell Tovey ..... Karl Lyndhurst
Angela Curran ..... Janette Hodgkins
Jo Enright ..... Angela Bromford
Tamla Kari ..... Danielle Fisher
Martin Marquez ..... Paul Franks
Tony Maudsley ..... Graham Pleck
Adeel Akhtar ..... George Dhot
Sophie McShera ..... Bryony West

Synopsis:

Working together...or not! Work is at the centre of this warm and funny modern sitcom from the award-winning producers of Rev. and Friday Night Dinner and featuring an impressive ensemble cast of renowned comedy actors. It's work - or the lack of it - that brings the characters together, and their relationships - or lack of them - around which The Job Lot revolves. Set in a job centre where the staff attempt, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, to help people find work, it's full of the often laugh out loud moments that anyone who's ever worked in an office will recognise. Neurotic manager Trish runs the Brownall Job Centre aided by a mixed-bag of staff, including reluctant and truculant Karl, the less-than-helpful Angela and two uniquely skilled security guards, all facing the challenges of dealing with customers who don't always appreciate their efforts.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 Apr. 29, 2013
Brownall House Job Centre manager Trish aims to turn the unemployed into the fun employed but faces apathy from her staff,notably bored Angela and security guard Paul,who moonlights as a carpet fitter and uses the Centre's phone for his business. The only reliable employee,young Karl,sick of seeing professional shirkers like Bryony and Graham,decides to quit but changes his mind on meeting new temp Chloe. He agrees to give a presentation but when his white-board is sabotaged is grateful to Bryony for helping him out.
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 May 6, 2013
Trish brings in army sergeant Steve Fox for a recruitment drive. He gets few takers but the female staff all fall for him - especially after he has expelled a man working whilst signing on - and Karl thinks he would be a great best friend. Only Paul resents him. Angela and Trish vie for his attention,Trish getting her hair caught in a hand drier in the process but after Steve has extricated her they go on a date. Sadly she comes on too strong to him and so she ends up in the pub with the other workers.
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 May 13, 2013
When the local car plant closes overnight Brownall House is inundated with hundreds of the unemployed,Paul using the opportunity to try and sell them carpets. Flu-stricken Karl unwittingly antagonizes a woman before accepting an energy drink from investigator George,which turns out to be lethal. Trish takes a turn at the desk,discovering that Angela is using the works computer for her dating site but when she asks George to fix it he ends up causing all the building's computers to crash.
Episode #1.4 S1, Ep4 May 20, 2013
Trish panics on learning that an undercover inspector is coming to rate Brownall House. She is certain he is hard-of-hearing Alan Tucker and goes out of her way to be helpful - as well as acting as marriage guidance counsellor to a pair of notorious benefit cheats. And there is a further complication when regular claimant Graham appears to have died. In fact the inspector,a young woman,is seen by Angela,who is customarily unhelpful and disinterested so Trish ,as damage limitation,sends in the charming Karl.
Episode #1.5 S1, Ep5 Jun. 3, 2013
Karl brags about having had sex with his new girlfriend,barmaid Mia,but is appalled when she comes in to sign on,as she is working and claiming and he is not meant to date clients. Thus he makes excuses to keep her from his colleagues. However she tells him she will soon be working on a cruise ship and encourages him to join her. He gives written notice but Trish,bleary-eyed after a visit to the optician,cannot read it and he eventually withdraws it.
Episode #1.6 S1, Ep6 Jun. 10, 2013
On her birthday Trish asks Karl to be acting manager to which he reluctantly assents as Angela spitefully drops him in it when an angry claimant glues herself to her desk and the queue of job-seekers increases. Furthermore nobody takes Karl seriously when he gives Paul a warning for storing his carpets in the office. Trish confides in Karl that she is angry with her ex-husband for leaving her for a younger woman and makes him accompany her to his house,where she breaks in and reclaims her dogs. Mission accomplished they return to work and Trish's birthday party.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.