Yep, and so does squirrel poo, and this show was the TV equivalent of several bags of it…

The premise for this two part drama is that David and Alice Chaplin, along with their three children, have just moved to a posh residential area of Clapham. There, they soon meet their new neighbours Ffion and Phillip; she’s a snooty but psychopathically social-ladder-climbing Hooray Henry while he’s “acerbic but emasculated.”

In a nutshell – pardon the pun – the Chaplin mater and pater want their daughter Molly to attend the private and prestigious Clapham School for Girls, but they rather quickly realise that she’s just too thick to pass the entrance exam, so amid exceptionally hammy acting of the horror at the alternative prospect – the local comprehensive school – Alice decides to take drastic measures and dress herself up/down as an 11 year old in order to sit the exam in Molly’s place… Read more & comment »

May Contain Nuts is a two-part comedy drama for ITV1 starring Shirley Henderson, Darren Boyd, Elizabeth Berrington, and Sophie Thompson. This adaptation of John O’Farrell’s best-selling novel is created by multi-award winning Mark Burton (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Madagascar, Chicken Run).

School can be tough these days: bullying, back-stabbing, competing and cheating… and that’s just the parents. Meet the Chaplin family. Alice (Shirley Henderson – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Dirty Filthy Love) and David (Darren Boyd – The Jane Show, Green Wing, Smack The Pony) have moved with their three young children to a safe, leafy, gated community in South West London.

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