Thursday 7 June 2007 9:00pm - 10:30pm on ITV1.

You Can Choose Your Friends is a new 90-minute comedy drama which re-unites Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie two decades after starring in Fresh Fields and French Fields.

Written by the critically acclaimed comedian Richard Herring, this warm and witty, yet edgy and distinctive script features: Robert Daws (The Royal), Claire Skinner (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Sleepy Hollow), Rebecca Front (Nighty Night, The Catherine Tate Show), Gordon Kennedy (Robin Hood), Sarah-Jane Potts (Sugar Rush) and Richard Herring.

You Can Choose Your Friends explores the humour and tension of family life, with all the affection, familiarity and resentments that everyone will identify with.

The story revolves around the 45th wedding anniversary celebrations of devoted couple Ken and Margaret Snell. As three generations of the family converge on the family home, issues as trivial as the fluffiness of towels and the pronunciation of the word ‘Doritos’, and as serious as marital infidelity and sibling rivalry, threaten to shatter the fragile accord.

Margaret has a nagging feeling that something is going to go terribly wrong, while a mysterious injury to Ken’s nose makes the family suspect that something already has done.

The state of the relationships of Ken and Margaret’s children is in stark contrast to the stability and longevity of their own marriage: happy-go-lucky Ian, the youngest son, arrives with the latest in a long line of attractive girlfriends, Chloe, and the pair can’t keep their hands off each other.

Tortured Simon, his elder brother, is battling to save his marriage with the caustic and wronged Amanda, while dependable middle child Jane worries that she is being taken for granted by her unromantic husband, Pete. Jane’s sporty and boisterous children struggle to engage with their withdrawn and intellectual cousin, Phoebe.