Live! Girls! Present Dogtown
Starts Tuesday 3 October at 11.00pm on 91Èȱ¬ THREE
Introduction
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown tells the story of life for the residents of Horton-le-Hole, a fictional coastal town where things are not all they seem.
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A controlling optician meets a mild librarian to enact illicit fantasies as Oscar-winning movie stars and Olympic champions; a socially inept geography teacher dreams of becoming a Deputy Head; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic has set up a business in a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are systematically and mysteriously vandalised, one of the greatest love affairs the world has ever known begins to stir in the library.
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Written by twin sisters Emma and Beth Kilcoyne, and starring Emma Kilcoyne and Sam Battersea, who perform in a number of guises, the series is based on their live act, Live! Girls!, which played in Edinburgh to great acclaim:
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"Capable of great comic extravagance" - Metro
"Should make it big" - Sunday Times
"Brilliantly funny" - Guardian
"Go and see these girls – they're dead funny" - Paul McCartney
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Emma Kilcoyne plays Eenie Thompson, the 73-year-old arsonist dwarf; Bill Taddler, the misguided and over-bearing geography teacher; and Denise Taylor, the put-upon librarian with a secret.
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Sam Battersea plays Sheila Taddler, Bill's long-suffering wife, and Carol Gomez, the unusual optician with the domineering fantasy life.
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Dogtown's regular supporting cast includes Geraldine McNulty (The Smoking Room, My Hero) as Sue McCardle, the ruthlessly ambitious Scale Two Librarian; and James Gaddas (Bad Girls, Casualty, Holby City) as Geoff Torville, her debonair, film noir-ish boss; as well as Rachel Pickup, Madelaine Newton and Dave Johns.
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The series also features cameo appearances from Kevin Whately and Imelda Staunton.
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Live! Girls! Present Dogtown is a co-production between Celador Productions and the 91Èȱ¬, directed by Jonathan Fox Bassett, produced by Vanessa Haynes, and executive produced by Jon Plowman and Humphrey Barclay.
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