PEOPLE LIKE US: THE COMPLETE SERIES

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Before The Office there was People Like Us, twelve mockumentaries chronicling the embarrassments, misstatements, and general unsightliness of workplace life. ; ; Starring Chris Langham, Bill Nighy, Jessica Hynes, David Tennant, and Sarah Alexander. ; ; BBC interviewer Roy Mallard travels the country to talk to ordinary folk and get under the skin of what it's really like to be one of Britain's unsung professionals. Mallard has little or no skill as an interviewer: he is over-earnest, and after most of his voiceovers, you realize there's something slightly odd about what he's said. He's hopelessly inept, staggerinly gauche and linguistically challenged. Utterly insensitive to nuance or atmosphere, he is constantly caugt off guard by his interviewees who take his questions too literally. Slowly but relentlessly, he gets caught up in some distracting human mini-drama that skews the entier episode, whether because of a dysfunctional slide projector, an unintelligible Japanese translator or an estate agent with an uncosummated passion for a colleague. He's apt to talk nonsense and is so obviously unattractive there's a running joke that nobody can believe he's married.;
• Cast: Chris Langham, Mark Hadfield, Mike Hayley, Ewan Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Emma Kennedy, Iain Rogerson, Jilly Bond, Heather Coombs, Beth Chalmers, Colin Murphy, Steve Oram, Nina Sosanya, John Morton, Willy Smax
• Director: John Morton
• Runtime: 5:49
• Company: BBC Video, 2 Entertain
• Media Format: Series