Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television show written by James Corden and Ruth Jones. Three series totalling twenty episodes were broadcast from 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010 on BBC Three and later on BBC One. The series follows the romance between Gavin, from Billericay in Essex and Stacey from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. The surnames of well-known English serial killers were used for some of the main characters – Harold Shipman, Fred West and Peter Sutcliffe.
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Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television show written by James Corden and Ruth Jones. Three series totalling twenty episodes were broadcast from 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010 on BBC Three and later on BBC One. The series follows the romance between Gavin, from Billericay in Essex and Stacey from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. The surnames of well-known English serial killers were used for some of the main characters – Harold Shipman, Fred West and Peter Sutcliffe. In 2019, Gavin & Stacey was named the 17th greatest British sitcom in a poll by Radio Times. With 18. 49 million viewers, the broadcast in the United Kingdom was the most-viewed non-sporting event in a decade. It won several awards, including the British Academy Television Awards Audience Award, and the British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Award, both in 2008. The first series ends with Nessa going to inform Smithy that she is pregnant with his child at the last minute. The second series begins with the newlyweds arriving from a honeymoon, before becoming engaged and getting engaged. The third series ends with the pair getting married on 6 April 2007 and having a baby. The fourth and final series was broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year’s Day 2010, with episodes of the final series forming a significant part of the prime-time BBC seasonal programming. The characters of Gavin and Stacee provide the emotional core of the story, focusing on the situations that arise when their relationship brings their two different families together.
episodes often focus on the key events in life that bring wider families and close friends together such as weddings, christenings, birthday parties and Christmases. The show also presents the families interacting in deliberately non-dramatic situations, such as a visit to the beach and nights out. In these scenes, the subtle dialogue between the characters often contains underlying jokes or comedic value. The final series also follows the contrasting relationship between Smithy and Nessa, who have several one-night stands, leading to Nessa becoming pregnant and having their baby. Towards the end of the show’s run, the dramatic emphasis switches slightly from them, as they resolve their distance issues, as Nessa becomes engaged to another man. Other storylines in the three series include Pam’s fake vegetarianism, Bryn and his nephew Jason’s struggle to keep the events of their disastrous fishing trip a secret and the ridiculously rocky marriage of Pam’s friends Pete and Dawn. Noel Sullivan and John Prescott made brief cameo appearances towards the end of the last series. The show was directed by Christine Gernon who had previously directed other popular BBC sitcoms such as One Foot in the Grave, and Baby Cow Productions produced the sitcom for BBC Wales. It was also the most nominated show in the 2007 British Comedy Award ceremony, and won the Best Comedy Award for Best Television Comedy Award in 2008, as well as several other awards.
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