Hunderby

Hunderby
Genre
Created by Julia Davis
Written by Julia Davis
Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Directed by Tony Dow
Starring Alexandra Roach
Julia Davis
Alex Macqueen
Rufus Jones
Julian Barratt
Country of origin England
Original language(s) English
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 10
Production
Executive producer(s) Julia Davis
Lindsay Hughes
Armando Iannucci
Lucy Lumsden
Henry Normal
Producer(s) John Rushton
Camera setup Film, single camera
Running time 8x30mins (S1) 2x60mins (S2)
Production company(s) Baby Cow Productions
Release
Original network Sky Atlantic
Picture format PAL (576i)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 27 August 2012 – 17 December 2015
External links
Website

Hunderby is a British sitcom produced by Sky and written by Julia Davis.[3] It was first broadcast on Sky Atlantic in 2012. The series won two awards at the British Comedy Awards in 2012; it also won Davis a BAFTA TV Award for best comedy writing. Hunderby returned in December 2015 for a second series consisting of two one-hour specials.

Plot

Set in the 1830s, this black comedy centres on Helene, a woman who is washed ashore after her ship is wrecked off the English coast. There, she is courted by Edmund, a local pastor, and they soon get married under the understanding that Helene is still pure. However, she has a dark past that she must hide from him.

When Helene moves into Edmund's home, she falls under the watchful eye of housekeeper Dorothy, who is more than a little involved in her master's life and quite obsessed with his dead first wife, Arabelle, to whom, in her opinion, Helene simply does not compare. While Helene battles to keep her past a secret, she must navigate Dorothy's devious scheming, her husband's harsh critique and a potential new love interest in the form of Dr. Foggerty.

Cast

Main characters

Supporting roles

Reception

Sam Wollaston, television critic for The Guardian, was enthusiastic about the programme.[4] He concludes: "Hunderby is filth... the filthiest filth, but also top quality filth, and you can get away with a lot by being very good, and very funny, which it is."[4]

Ratings

Hunderby debuted on Sky Atlantic in August 2012 with 246,000 viewers, the channel's second highest rated show of the week, after The Borgias.[5] In subsequent weeks ratings remained high for Sky Atlantic, with figures all above 100,000. The series had 211,000 viewers.

Awards

In 2012, Hunderby won a British Comedy Award for "Best Sitcom", and another for "Best New Comedy Programme". For "Best Sitcom", its competition was Rev, The Thick of It, and Twenty Twelve; for "Best New Comedy Programme", it competed with Cardinal Burns, Moone Boy, and Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life.[6]

In 2013, Hunderby won Julia Davis a BAFTA Craft award for "Best Comedy Writing"; Davis was also nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in the category "Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme".[7] Hunderby itself was nominated for a BAFTA in the "Situation Comedy" category.[7]

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