Roger & Val Have Just Got In

Roger & Val Have Just Got In
Genre	Sitcom
Format	Comedy
Created by	Dawn French
Written by	Emma Kilcoyne Beth Kilcoyne
Directed by	Jamie Rafn
Starring	Dawn French Alfred Molina
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	8 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Peter Thornton
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two
Original run	6 August 2010 (2010-08-06) – present

Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The show was created by Dawn French, it is directed by Jamie Rafn and it is written by Beth Kilcoyne and Emma Kilcoyne. Each episode is set in the half hour after Roger and Val arrive home from work. Episodes play out in real time with no laughter track.

In May 2011 Dawn French was nominated for a BAFTA for her role as Val. As a result of the BAFTA nomination, the first series is currently reshowing on the UKTV channel GOLD.

The first episode of the second series, 'The Shock', was broadcast on 8 February 2012 on BBC Two.

Plot

Dawn French and Alfred Molina star in this comedy series focusing on the everyday, seemingly trivial trials and tribulations faced by a middle-aged married couple. The bittersweet comedy looks at how they get on in the first half an hour after walking through their front door.

Episode list

Series 1 (2010)

#	Title	Directed by	Original airdate	Viewers
1	"The Guarantee"	Jamie Rafn	6 August 2010 (2010-08-06)	1.71 million
The opening episode explores the Roger and Val looking for a Hoover guarantee so they can return it to the shop and get a refund. It takes the whole episode just to find it but when they eventually do find it, Val is so happy, she tears it up by mistake and in the last couple minutes of the episode, we see Val cooking the tea and Roger with sellotape sticking the pieces of the guarantee back together.
2	"The Unglamorous Row"	Jamie Rafn	13 August 2010 (2010-08-13)	1.23 million
Val comes home to find Roger in an agitated state. She has left that evening's meal, a pack of fish fingers and some frozen peas, in his plant fridge in the conservatory. Thus begins a chain of rows, each one seemingly all about fish fingers. Despite various attempts by both parties to smooth things over, there is a certain amount of tension in the air. It transpires that Roger is in a foul mood not because of the fish fingers, but because there are two new water voles at work who don't get on, and staff have named them after Roger and his boss Phil.
3	"The Dining Room Curtains"	Jamie Rafn	20 August 2010 (2010-08-20)	1.09 million
Roger's father is critically ill in hospital. Meanwhile, there's the job of re-hanging the freshly laundered dining room curtains - courtesy of Year 9 - in the newly painted dining room. Top of the agenda, however, is putting on the kettle and unwinding with a cup of tea and a snack. In typical fashion, one scotch pancake leads to another and, with the pressing need to generally put the world to rights, will either of them have the energy for household chores?
4	"Be Our Guests"	Jamie Rafn	27 August 2010 (2010-08-27)	1.16 Million
Roger's dad is close to death. Roger's cousin Cathy is arriving with her husband so that she can say her farewells. Roger and Val find themselves under pressure to get the spare room ready for their stay. Things become too much for Roger.
5	"Reply All"	Jamie Rafn	3 September 2010 (2010-09-03)	0.924 million
Roger lies almost mute in bed in the spare room. Val tries hard to reach him, but there's more to this crisis than the recent news about his father. Roger reveals that, alone in the house, he has followed grief counselling advice and written out an idealised self-image; however he has mistakenly emailed it to his management team at work. Hideously embarrassed, he and Val try to salvage the situation, but it leads to a terrible and definite schism between them. For the first time in the series, someone leaves the house.
6	"The Valerie Step"	Jamie Rafn	10 September 2010 (2010-09-10)	0.992 million
Val is curious to find out how Roger's work tribunal has gone but, following recent events, relations between the two of them are less than easy. Val unwittingly reveals that she's off to a work event which a former colleague is due to be attending - enough to set Roger off, despite her not having seen this colleague since he left for a sojourn in New Zealand. So, in true Roger fashion, he reviews all things NZ and finds them wanting ... dating back to Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing. But more to the point, will Roger and Val be able to surmount their own particular Everest?

Series 2 (2012)

The first episode, entitled 'The Shock' premiered on BBC Two on 8 Feb 2012.

#	Title	Directed by	Original airdate	Viewers
1	"A Shock"	Mandie Fletcher	8 February 2012 (2012-02-08)	1.03 million
Val shows Roger her novel way of overcoming interview nerves with a little help from her friends. Meanwhile, among the weekend's post is a hand-delivered note for Roger that will change every aspect of their world and shatter the balance they have worked so hard to achieve.
2	"The Woman in the Attic"	Mandie Fletcher	15 February 2012 (2012-02-15)
It is World Book Day at Val's school, an excellent opportunity to further her deputy headship campaign while dressed as Mrs Danvers. A fellow teacher has given Val a plastic toy to give Roger good luck, but it seems to be strangely multiplying itself inside the house. Meanwhile, a message on Roger's Facebook support group threatens to bring his major misdemeanour to Val's attention.

Awards

• 2011 - Nominated - BAFTA Best Female Performance In A Comedy Role - Dawn French

DVD release

All six episodes of the first series were released on DVD on 13 September 2010.

External links

• Roger & Val Have Just Got In at BBC Programmes
• Roger & Val Have Just Got In at the British Comedy Guide
• Roger & Val Have Just Got In at the Internet Movie Database