Bitter and Twisted: A dark poignant romantic sitcom starring Stephen Mangan (Green Wing) and Sharon Horgan (Pulling). The comedy follows an on-but-mostly-off romance that might just have a future if the past can be forgotten. Anthony Head also stars as the boss of a talent agency.


Don't know when this is on, but it's part of Channel 4's one off new comedy slot starting next month.

Just thought you Manganits might like to know :)

yay a new stephen show to keep my eyes glued to the TV :excited thankies IMO :D

I saw like a split second clip with Stephen and Martin Clunes..ive been wondering what it was for!! I cant wait!!

Yes the trailer was on Channel 4 last night with clips from the shows - I didn't see SM but Mike did and said that's whatshisname from Green Wing. It was very upsetting when he then said the one that played Guy :sob

oOo I saw the clip!! It looked funny!! and his hairs got bigger!!

It's on next Friday 9 November Channel 4 at 10.30 pm. Ops sorry the article is from The Radio Times. I would have trimmed off the extra bits but we've got a new printer, hence new scanner and I don't know which buttons to press :evilcomp

YAY!!!! I was starting to get worried that I'd missed this, tbh!

It looks fairly promising and rather sweet so wooooo!!! I won't be here to see it but I'll make sure it's recorded for me.

Thanks v. much for this, IMO. :hug :) :) :) :) I love the bit about the bed and not wanting to appear too keen or uninterested in The Cappuccino Years. :lol:

right i have to make sure i dont miss this one! looks fun

nooooo i'm going to a party that day damn it :cry

:hug You can record it, can't you?

hang on a moment...
i thought he was 37!

nah Julian's 37 (or possibly 38 now), Stephen was 34, now 35.

Ohh yeah he is 35 cos he was born in 72 i think
Julian's 39 cos he was born in 68

argh theyre all getting so old!!

yeah steve is a few years younger then julian

and alas I cannot record it as my video player plays videos but the recording system in it has back up <_<

Will probably be on 4OD ros.

Cant wait for next Friday to watch this! Seen the trailer about a billion times now, and I still squeak every time he appears on the screen!

I Know!

and you know what makes it enven bewtter?

Sex scenes!

YAAY! :yeeay

I haven't seen the trailer at all :cry

I saw the trailer the other day. I wont be around to see it but will definitely be sky plus-ing it!

I fell asleep halfway through...then was rudely woken by Mrs Doyle blowing a foghorn in Father Ted!

Obscenely pervy Giles seemed a bit wrong really.

just watched it on 40D

wierd programme but steve made up for it :)

Will someone tell me how 4od works? Do I have to download anything?
I was doing the play when this was on :(

And that is why I didn't watch it. I read a thing about it in the TV guide last week that was quite negative, and said you'd only find it funny depending on how funny you thought it was to see Anthony Head as a "coke-snorting lech". I decided my answer was "not funny at all" and avoided it like the plague.

You do have to download it website

then you can either stream content or download it to watch at a later date. catch up is free as are certain other things, films are £1.99, other programs are 99p.

so do you think it's worth me watching or not? I may not actually bother hmm I'll see...

I think it's worth watching if you're a Mangan fan. Stephen's in just about every scene... Yeah, can't think of a scene he isn't in... and his character's q. interesting, I think... but the programme, as a whole, I'm sorry to say left a bit to be desired. :(

My main problem with it was the lack of story as rather little actually went on. If dialogue or visual humour or romance or something similar are strong in something I don't mind a lack of plot but this wasn't really the case for Free Agents - it seemed to be lacking q. a bit.

The characters are its strength, imo, so, if scripts were improved, I think something could be made of it but, as it was, it was something of a disappointment. I mean, there was a lot of background written but not much action filmed.

One or two bits were funny, but all the language left a bit to be desired :rolleyes: and if they were trying to be funny with all the Anthony Head bits, it didn't work :unsure:

Well, it depends on your sense of humour but they were clearly trying to rely on shock to force laughter. That is always thought of as 'not clever' and all that but it can be if handled right. Sadly, though, it just wasn't in this.

No the "let's shock the audience into laughing by using loads of really rude words" just didn't work, as it just wasn't believable :rolleyes: