Nighty Night Where To Watch

[Kayleen]

Notoriousfor its dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) alongside her moronic personal assistant Linda (Ruth Jones). Jill learns that her husband Terry (Kevin Eldon) has cancer. She uses this to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), who suffers from MS, and her husband Don (Angus Deayton), a doctor and the man with whom Jill becomes increasingly obsessed.

The theme tune used in the beginning of both series and during the closing credits for the first is an excerpt from the Spaghetti Western My Name Is Nobody, composed by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. Parts of the show were filmed in the Surrey town of Dorking and the village of Cobham, the latter includes the cul-de-sac where Jill and the Coles live.

Immediately after her husband begins cancer treatment, Jill goes to a dating agency to find another man, seemingly content in the knowledge that her husband will shortly die. Jill uses her status as widow (despite Terry being still alive) to gain sympathy from her neighbours and co-workers. Don is a family doctor and his wife Cathy has multiple sclerosis and often uses a wheelchair. Using the pretence of caring for Cathy, Jill gradually moves in with them, flirting with their son David and trying to break up their marriage and sleep with Don, all the while playing the sympathy card with Cathy.

When Jill finds out Terry is recovering, she admits him to a hospice and tells all her friends that he has died, and stages a twisted funeral where she gets all the attention. Terry leaves the hospice and finds his way home. Jill imprisons him in a spare room and begins starving and brutalising him, but explains she is doing it only to aid his recovery.

Cathy and Don put forward their plans to move to Hopperton, a Christian retreat with a high population of lesbians. When Jill hears of this she throws a farewell coffee morning for them, livening it up by performing a pole dance routine, whilst the neighbours watch in horror. After the party Jill, realising she must be rid of Terry once and for all, runs upstairs and smothers him with a cushion.

Three weeks pass, and Jill has moved in with the wealthy but dimwitted Glen at his mansion. One morning, Jill goes downstairs to find Glen has invited Gordon, the local vicar and friend of Jill, to arrange a wedding. Jill realises she is about to be found out, so confesses to murdering her husband to Glen. She puts poison in dishes of Angel Delight and encourages Gordon to eat some. As he chokes on it, she tells Glen that if he loves her he would agree to take the blame for Gordon's and Terry's deaths and persuades him to make a telephone confession to the police. This done, Jill suggests that they both commit suicide by eating the Angel Delight, and he gives in to her persuasion. When it is her turn to eat the Angel Delight, she declares, "I'm not really hungry". The poison takes effect and Glen drops to the floor.

Glen has survived Jill's attempt to kill him, but having confessed to killing Terry and Gordon, he is incarcerated in a secure unit for the criminally insane. Realising that she must inherit Glen's money to fund her pursuit of Don, she agrees to marry him and then begins a campaign to kill him. Jill steals a caravan from Linda and pursues Don to Bude, Cornwall, where he and Cath are trying fix their marriage at a New-Age retreat called The Trees. En route to The Trees, they accidentally run over Floella Umbagabe, a therapist planning to work at the retreat. They store her body in their caravan and Jill assumes Floella's identity to gain access to the centre.

When Cathy reveals she is pregnant with Don's baby and that he will be having a vasectomy, Jill realises her chances of securing him permanently are running out, so she tries to obtain a semen sample from Don prior to surgery. Ultimately unsuccessful, she tries to seduce Cath and Don's 12-year-old son Bruce, and when he does not respond she claims to his parents that he raped her and she is pregnant by him.

The story flashes forward 11 months. Cath has given birth to her baby Abigail. Don tells Sue that he wants to move to Spain with her to start a new life. Jill overhears and assumes Don is talking about her. Glen finds Jill and threatens to kill her. Convincing him that she's pregnant with his baby, Jill once again deceives Glen into submission.

After Jill's lies are once again exposed, she is chased to a cliff, where Cath confronts her about her fake pregnancy and her repeated attempts to seduce Don. They begin to fight while Don and Sue have sex on the rocks below. Cath's wheelchair is hurled off the cliff, killing Sue just before Cath pushes Jill off the cliff. Her fall is broken by a trampoline, and then by Don. Cath is arrested and taken away by the police, while Jill rides off in a speed boat with Don and Glen.

The first series won a Banff Award and Davis won a Royal Television Society Award for her performance and got a highly positive reception from TV critics. It also received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy in 2005.[4]

The Guardian called it "an exquisitely vile comic creation" and adding that "The Office might have popularised the comedy of embarrassment, but Nighty Night has moved it on."[5] The Times called it "a blistering wall of superbly unredeemed cruelty that manages to trample over every social convention in a pair of cheap stilettos."[6]

In viewership, while no data was reported for the first series, the second series began strongly with 616,000 viewers - BBC Three's second-highest rated show of the week. Ratings slipped sharply from thereon, however, with the final two episodes registering fewer than 400,000 viewers and falling outside of the channel's top 10 shows both weeks.[7]

In June 2006 it was announced that Sex and the City creator Darren Star would write and be executive producer of a US version, which has been commissioned for a pilot script. Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, founders of the production company Baby Cow, were to be co-executive-producers.[8]

So I go back to the bedroom and I lay beside him tonight, studying the back of his head, for the last time. I did all the right things today to minimize the injuries sustained from this collision. Tomorrow I will do the next right thing. I will shock my quivering, twitching heart and steady my ravaged breath. I will peel myself off the pavement. I will do the only thing which there is left to do now. I will do what I should have always done. I will burn my white flag. I will keep the enemy at bay.

When we were sixteen, I thought you were going places. I thought that you had the world by the tail and that one day you would be a great man. So I followed you. I watched you break track and field records. I listened as you told funny stories at parties. I shivered when I felt your hands gently stroking me. You made it easy to love you. You kissed me on the school bus in the mornings. You cried in my arms if you felt betrayed. You waved from outside on my first day of work. You had the cutest laugh. You said I was smart and beautiful. You still say that.

So, I say no. No more phone calls in the middle of the night. No more dull conversations. No more meeting for a drink. No more canceling our plans at the last minute. No more awkward goodbyes. No more drunken nights of secret sex. No more telling me that you still love me. No more keeping my mouth shut.

Grecian roguelike Hades has taken one more step towards leaving early access hell. The Nighty Night update came out last night, unleashing some new spikey gloves, a trip to a library, and a tiny, evil, rat. There's loads more besides, but that new weapon, the Twin Fists of Malphon, is the highlight. I am looking forward to punching small malevolent rodents.

The big mirror that dishes out Talents has been overhauled, now letting you choose between two effects for each buff. The one that gives you bonus damage if you dodge just before being hit sounds enticing, and could have a big impact on how I play.

Also new is the Aspect of Arthur, which lets you imbue the Stygian Blade with the power of Excalibur. Zagreus finds this puzzlingly futuristic, which is pleasing. I'm well up for Arthur himself making an appearance at a later date.

One of the most impressive parts of Hades is how it integrates its story into a roguelike structure, so I'm also glad to see developers Supergiant have wrangled in "hours of added narrative featuring Nyx, Chaos, Artemis, Zeus, and more". There's a new room called the Administrative Chamber in the starting area, where you can "access your Permanent Record beyond a mysterious locked door". There are new events, too, like Zag's dad dealing with a line of ghosts who've come to the lord of the underworld with their requests.

There's loads I haven't mentioned, from improved visual effects to rejigged combat encounters, including that rat-based "terrifying new mini-boss". Pretty much everything has been twiddled with. Here are the patch notes in full.

Once upon a time many thought Ricky Gervais' David Brent in The Office was in the upper range of the squirm-o-meter. Gerry Dee's desperately needy substitute teacher Mr. D is up there too. But the comedic work of Julia Davis sometimes seems like something else again.

"I don't want it to be as uncomfortable as it is," Davis says. "I just write stuff that I think is funny or situations that I think are funny or interesting. But what happens is that I make it with these friends and we've all got similar senses of humour.

"When you're filming it, it's like you're just playing dressing up or something, you're in this tiny world," she says. "When I go to a press screening and sit with people, that is when I go, 'oh my God', and that's when I am honestly swearing, literally sweating when I watch because it's so uncomfortable."

A brief summary of the jumping off point: Sally (Catherine Shepherd) is withering inside, trapped in an unhappy relationship with verging-on-pathetic David (Alex Macqueen). Enter Emma (Davis), a manipulative woman who seems to trap Sally in her emotional maw.

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