The Job Lot

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The comedy is set in a busy West Midlands Job Centre and will focus on the relationships between the people that work there and the people that don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter. It’s work, or the lack of it, that brings the characters together, and their relationships, or lack of them, around which the series revolves.

Episode one:

Job centre manager Trish [Sarah Hadland] is struggling to manage. She’s got a world of work seminar to run, the temp’s late and Angela [Jo Enright], the most difficult employee in the West Midlands is back – fresh from winning an employment tribunal. She’s unmanageable and now, unsackable. Karl [Russell Tovey] is the only member of staff Trish can rely on, but now even he’s reached the end of his tether. Although he spends every day surrounded by people who need a job, he decides to take his chances and quit – until somebody changes his mind...

Cast list:

Karl – Russell Tovey
Trish – Sarah Hadland
Angela – Jo Enright
Danielle – Tamla Kari
Janette – Angela Curran
Paul – Martin Marquez
Graham – Tony Maudsley
Bryony – Sophie McShera
George – Adeel Akhtar

Shall be watching this :D

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Starts Mon 29 Apr 2013 at 9.30pm - 10.00pm

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6th May 2013


In an effort to boost Brownall Job Centre’s figures, Trish [Sarah Hadland] calls in the army. Sergeant Steve Fox [Sean Pertwee] comes in to recruit jobseekers to the armed forces, and finds himself on the receiving end of a very different kind of interest.

Battle lines are drawn and Trish is going to have to overcome her bad hair day if she wants to get her man. Meanwhile benefit fraud investigator George [Adeel Akhtar] goes undercover to trap a man who’s signing on and working as a decorator, but things don’t quite go according to plan.

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6th May 2013


In an effort to boost Brownall Job Centre’s figures, Trish [Sarah Hadland] calls in the army. Sergeant Steve Fox [Sean Pertwee] comes in to recruit jobseekers to the armed forces, and finds himself on the receiving end of a very different kind of interest.

Battle lines are drawn and Trish is going to have to overcome her bad hair day if she wants to get her man. Meanwhile benefit fraud investigator George [Adeel Akhtar] goes undercover to trap a man who’s signing on and working as a decorator, but things don’t quite go according to plan.

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13th May 2013

When a factory shuts down overnight, the job centre is inundated with newly unemployed jobseekers. It’s all hands to the pump, but Karl [Russell Tovey] is in the worst possible state to cope with the busiest possible day. Even Trish [Sarah Hadland] has to sign people on – as she says “teamwork makes the dream work”. Problem is, she doesn’t have a clue how to do it and her struggles with the computer reveal a shocking, somewhat disturbing, secret.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAbYuqfT48&feature=player_detailpage

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20th May 2013


The job centre’s due to be inspected, and Trish [Sarah Hadland] is on the look-out for the mystery shopper – or secret jobseeker – who’s going to file a report. Nobody else seems to care, apart from security guard Janette [Angela Curran] who harbours an irrational hatred of the Great Barr branch and is determined to beat them in the job centre league table. Karl [Russell Tovey] is more interested in working with George [Adeel Akhtar] – they’re going to interrogate a pair of big-time benefit cheats together, but they both want to be bad cop.