Mandy | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Diane Morgan |
Written by | Diane Morgan |
Directed by | Diane Morgan |
Starring | Diane Morgan |
Opening theme | "Mandy" byBarry Manilow |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Diane Morgan |
Producers | Ben Caudell, Sam Ward, Kenny Tanner |
Editor | Jerry Ramsbottom |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 15 minutes[1] |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 25 July 2019 (2019-07-25) – present |
Mandy is a British television comedy series, written and starred by Diane Morgan as the title character Mandy Carter. After a pilot in 2019, the first series was broadcast in August 2020. A second series was commissioned by the BBC in 2021 which was released in January 2022.[2] A third series was confirmed in May 2023 and was released in March 2024.[3]
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Ave. UK viewers (millions)[citation needed] | Ave. UK viewers (millions)[citation needed] | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
Pilot | 1 | 25 July 2019 (2019-07-25) | TBA | TBA | ||
1 | 6 | 13 August 2020 (2020-08-13) | 28 August 2020 (2020-08-28) | TBA | TBA | |
2 | 7 | 20 December 2021 (2021-12-20) | 19 January 2022 (2022-01-19) | TBA | TBA | |
3 | 6 | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | TBA | TBA |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) | |
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1 | "Pilot" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 25 July 2019 (2019-07-25) | N/A | |
Mandy discovers the sofa of her dreams, but it's way out of her price range, so she turns to a succession of get rich quick schemes to fund it. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) [4] | |
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1 | "Jobseeker" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 13 August 2020 (2020-08-13) | 1.59 | |
Mandy's employment adviser finds her a job in a banana processing factory. It seems simple enough, but chaos soon follows.
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2 | "Susan Bloody Blower" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 13 August 2020 (2020-08-13) | 1.38 | |
Mandy is determined to win a line dancing endurance challenge, but unfortunately her former friend turned adversary, Susan Blower, has the same idea. Mandy and Lola turn to voodoo in an attempt to stop her. | ||||||
3 | "Russian" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 20 August 2020 (2020-08-20) | N/A | |
When Mandy advertises her spare room on Airbnb, she finds herself playing host to a taciturn Russian man. Romance ensues, but it's not without its problems: he's an assassin being hunted by MI6, and she's still married to Shaun Ryder. | ||||||
4 | "Fish" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 20 August 2020 (2020-08-20) | N/A | |
Mandy is fired from her latest job in a sushi restaurant, but befriends one of the diners. Meanwhile Lola is seeking something to bring customers to the salon, so Mandy suggests fish pedicures. | ||||||
5 | "Meat" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 August 2020 (2020-08-27) | N/A | |
Mandy goes on a health kick by quitting smoking, eating more protein, and getting active by offering her services as a dog walker, a combination with unforeseen consequences. | ||||||
6 | "Broadsword to Donna Ball" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 August 2020 (2020-08-27) | N/A | |
An old associate ropes in Mandy to act as lookout for a robbery, but when Mandy falls asleep on the job, she ends up being buried alive. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) [4] | |||||||
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Christmas Special | ||||||||||||
1 | "We Wish You a Mandy Christmas" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 20 December 2021 (2021-12-20) | N/A | |||||||
Mandy contemplates the true meaning of Christmas, and whether anyone actually likes eating turkey. | ||||||||||||
Series | ||||||||||||
2 | "The Unpleasantness at Brampton Hall" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 5 January 2022 (2022-01-05) | 1.65 | |||||||
Unpleasantness comes in many different forms, but the unpleasantness at Brampton Hall, a stately home and Mandy's latest workplace, is like none other. | ||||||||||||
3 | "Who Are You, Do You Think?" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 5 January 2022 (2022-01-05) | N/A | |||||||
Mandy's job as a cleaner leads to an unexpected role in an episode of a new TV show, Who Are You, Do You Think?. | ||||||||||||
4 | "Holiday for One" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 12 January 2022 (2022-01-12) | N/A | |||||||
Lola wins a holiday on a fancy cruise across the sea, but it's only for one. But that won't stop Mandy from having a vacation too. | ||||||||||||
5 | "SpaceMandy" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 12 January 2022 (2022-01-12) | N/A | |||||||
Mandy finds herself the face of the next frontier of space exploration: a one-way journey to Mars. | ||||||||||||
6 | "Fatberg" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 19 January 2022 (2022-01-19) | N/A | |||||||
A cushy job down the sewers yields some unexpected training and an extraordinary first day for Mandy. | ||||||||||||
7 | "The Curse of Mandy Carter" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 19 January 2022 (2022-01-19) | N/A | |||||||
Believing she's been cursed by a traveller, and is being hunted by a leather-clad man on a motorbike, Mandy prepares for a frozen future. |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.K. viewers (millions) [4] | |
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1 | "Destination: Dundee" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
Some surgical modifications enable Mandy to work as an air hostess, where airborne scratchcards turn out to be the least of her worries. | ||||||
2 | "Get Mandy Carter" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
A job protecting a very old tree from climbing children takes Mandy's career in an unexpectedly violent direction. | ||||||
3 | "Humandy Statue" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
Can Psychic Pauline help Mandy to lay the (snooker-playing) ghosts of her past to rest? | ||||||
4 | "The Career Ladder" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
Mandy's odd jobs fixing the roof of the local church lead her into direct conflict with the local bird life. | ||||||
5 | "Nandy" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
Mandy's 110-year-old relative buys a baby on the dark web, with life-threatening consequences.
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6 | "The Ballad of Mandy Carter" | Diane Morgan | Diane Morgan | 27 March 2024 (2024-03-27) | N/A | |
After some near-misses at a biscuit factory and an abattoir, Mandy decides the only way to enhance her career prospects is to improve her social status. |