"The Amazing Mrs Pritchard" (2006) TV series

Creator:

Sally Wainwright

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

2006 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

The story follows Mrs Ros Pritchard, a successful manager of a supermarket. When a couple of politicians...

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Jane Horrocks	...	Ros Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Steven Mackintosh	...	Ian Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Jodhi May	...	Miranda Lennox (6 episodes, 2006)
Janet McTeer	...	Catherine Walker (6 episodes, 2006)
Jemma McKenzie-Brown	...	Georgina Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Carey Mulligan	...	Emily Pritchard (6 episodes, 2006)
Geraldine James	...	Hilary Rees-Benson (5 episodes, 2006)
Selina Cadell	...	Dorothy Crowther (5 episodes, 2006)
Robert Portal	...	Paul Critchley (5 episodes, 2006)
Jonathan Aris	...	Sir Richard Leavis (5 episodes, 2006)
Sally Phillips	...	Meg Bayliss (5 episodes, 2006)
Siobhan Finneran	...	Beverley Clarke (4 episodes, 2006)
Frances Tomelty	...	Kitty Porter (4 episodes, 2006)
John Humphrys	...	Himself (4 episodes, 2006)
David Glover	...	Speaker (4 episodes, 2006)
Sylvestra Le Touzel	...	Nina Morgan (4 episodes, 2006)
Tom Mison	...	Ben Sixsmith (4 episodes, 2006)
Gavin Esler	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2006)
Mairead McKinley	...	Carol (3 episodes, 2006)
Vaughan Savidge	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2006)
Joe McAweaney	...	Stanley Lewis (3 episodes, 2006)
Fred Perry	...	Reporter (3 episodes, 2006)
Meera Syal	...	Liz Shannon (3 episodes, 2006)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

RSA, John Adam Street, Strand, London, England, UK

Company:

Kudos Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

The first series ended on a cliffhanger, with the intention being that the programme would return for a second series. However this was cancelled because the first series received poor audience ratings. After its initial run in the UK, a title card was added to the final episode when it was broadcast in Canada and a few other places, but not for its PBS run in the USA. This caption said that Mrs Pritchard, feeling that she had served a purpose, resigned as Prime Minister, and that she and her husband were living happily at home with their family in Eatanswill. Catherine Walker had become Prime Minister and was successfully leading the Purple Alliance; she never married.

Women can be politicians? Amazing!

Hasn't this been done a hundred times? You'd think after Margaret Thatcher this wouldn't be such a shocking premise. I found the whole thing silly and irritating.

I dislike prejudice in any form so it offends me to hear statements like, "Women are better at politics because they can admit when they've made a mistake." I don't think work has a gender, I don't think women are better at politics any more than men are better at engineering. I also dislike seeing women treat their husbands like children and their children like adults.

This might make a nice "follow your dream" film for school girls except for the fact that the film teaches that self-esteem is a more useful career preparation than education or experience.