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Returning: My Family

My Family returns to ABC1 on Friday night, full of mistaken identity, physical humour and excellent comic timing.

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My Family returns to ABC1 on Friday night with a pretty funny episode.

This is a traditional Brit-com, full of mistaken identity, physical humour and excellent comic timing from the cast.

In Friday’s episode look out for Penelope Wilton (Doctor Who, Downton Abbey) in a splendid guest appearance as a government official checking up on Ben mistakenly receiving disability payments. But his wife (Zoe Wannamaker) wants that Disabled Parking Permit bad…..!

Fresh from its 2009 Rose d’Or win for Best Sitcom, My Family returns for more chaos and confusion with the UK’s favourite dysfunctional TV family.

In most households, once the children leave home things become quieter and less prone to problems and misunderstandings. In the Harper household, the chances of that are zero!

In Series 10, grumpy Ben (Robert Linsay) and control freak Susan (Zoë Wanamaker) continue to squabble and score points off each other, as usual behaving more like children than adults. Daughter Janey’s (Daniela Denby Ashe) career as a carer becomes complicated by a cantankerous old client named Joe, and son Michael (Gabriel Thomson) comes out as gay.

In this opening episode, Wheelie Ben, the local council insists that Ben is disabled, and what can he do but play along with it until the wheels start coming off?

8pm Friday on ABC1.

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  2. Yes, I’ve been meticulously gathering data on the My Family viewing habits of the Australian audience for just such an occasion as this.

    *rolls eyes*

    As for “My Family HQ”, I doubt it exists any longer as series 11 was the show’s last.

  3. Regan, have you got any evidence “most fans” have already seen this season? Or, are you “most fans”? Otherwise, I guess the ratings will be so low that ABC1 will have to stop buying this show which, inturn, reduces everyone’s pay-packet back at My Family HQ.

    I’m sure it’s a safe bet that “most fans” of this program are 55+ & ABC1 are aware of these demos which is why they don’t have to worry about rushing this to air… But what would I know? It looks like everyone (aka, you) have bought season ten & eleven DVDs from Amazon UK.

  4. I love My Family, but the ABC are now two series behind. Most fans of the show have seen it elsewhere by now. I even have series 10 and 11 on DVD thanks to Amazon’s UK site.

    For series 10, they got a new team of writers and told them to make it more edgy and modern, that is why Michael is suddenly gay. I think that is a bit ridiculous frankly. They are asking us to ignore nine series worth of the characters back story. It is a massive continuity error. If they’d decided to make him bisexual, that would have made more sense.

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