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2005 British TV series or programme

Blessed

Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Ben Elton
Directed by	Ben Elton
Starring	Ardal O'Hanlon Mel Giedroyc Robert Webb Sally Bretton Russell Brand Kelly Beckett Hannah Jane Fox Hannah Spearritt
Opening theme	"Morningtown Ride" by the cast
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	BBC Studios
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	14 October (2005-10-14) – 9 December 2005 (2005-12-09)

Blessed is a BBC television sitcom created and directed by Ben Elton. The only series, of eight episodes, was broadcast on BBC One on Friday evenings at 9.00 pm between October and December 2005. It starred Ardal O'Hanlon and Mel Giedroyc as a couple of record producers, struggling to bring up two small children.

Plot

Gary and Sue are an immature young couple trying to reconcile raising two young children with the dream of becoming successful record producers.

Cast

Ardal O'Hanlon as Gary Chandler
Mel Giedroyc as Sue Chandler
Robert Webb as Bill Hathaway
Sally Bretton as Mary Hathaway
Russell Brand as Tommy
Kelly Beckett as Toppa
Hannah Jane Fox as Vicky
Rowland Rivron as Styx
Michael McKell as Ronnie
Hannah Spearritt as Sarah
Ray Panthaki as Lance

Episode guide

The episodes were named after song titles and the groups who sang them:

I'm So Tired (The Beatles)
Ever Fallen in Love with Someone (Buzzcocks)
I'm in Love with My Car (Queen)
Just Looking (Stereophonics)
Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
Who Wrote the Book of Love? (The Monotones)
Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons)
Let's Spend the Night Together (The Rolling Stones)

References

"Blessed – TV sitcom". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
"Blessed – A decade after his last BBC One sitcom Ben Elton returned in 2005 to the TV genre that he'd already mastered with The Young Ones and Blackadder". BBC. Retrieved 3 March 2023.

External links

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Television	The Young Ones (1982) There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982) Alfresco (1983) Saturday Live/Friday Night Live (1985) Happy Families (1985) Filthy Rich & Catflap (1986) Blackadder II (1986) Blackadder the Third (1987) Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie (1990) Mr. Bean (1990) Stark (1993) The Thin Blue Line (1995) The Ben Elton Show (1998) Blessed (2005) Get a Grip (2007) Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth (2011) The Wright Way (2013) Upstart Crow (2016-2020)
Theatre	Gasping (1990) Silly Cow (1991) Popcorn (1996) Blast from the Past (1998) The Beautiful Game (1998) We Will Rock You (2002) Tonight's the Night (2003) Love Never Dies (2010) The Upstart Crow (2020) Twiggy The Musical (2023)
Novel	Stark (1989) Gridlock (1991) This Other Eden (1993) Popcorn (1996) Blast from the Past (1998) Inconceivable (1999) Dead Famous (2001) High Society (2002) Past Mortem (2004) The First Casualty (2005) Chart Throb (2006) Blind Faith (2007) Meltdown (2010) Two Brothers (2012) Time and Time Again (2014) Identity Crisis (2019)
Film	Maybe Baby (2000) Three Summers (2017) All Is True (2018)

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