» Dani on: Monday Monday
Dani on TV: Monday Monday – ITV1
Monday Monday
ITV1, Mondays, 9pm
Set in the offices of supermarket Butterworths, Monday Monday follows all the office staff as they relocate across the country and learn how to work with new colleagues. Including Alyson, who has been brought in to assess the company’s productivity and eventually decide how or – more importantly – who – to downsize.
Most of us at some point or another have been subjected to working in an office environment and this sitcom takes all those little bits that you thought must only be happening to you and sticks them on the screen. I have to admit that the only reason I watched this was because it had Fay Ripley in it, and although I was expecting to be disappointed by it I wasn’t. There currently seems to be a lack of new series on TV and this is a welcome change to the depressive soaps that grace our TV schedules.
The series also features Neil Stuke (Game On) as Max Chambers, the acting Head of Marketing who is covering the sick leave of Vivienne. Office parties, office romances, redundancies – it’s all in here along with a pinch of black comedy and a bottle of vodka. Monday nights are usually a point of recovery after your first day back at work after the weekend, and this could be the perfect medicine (especially if you work in an office). You might at least feel slightly grateful that you work where you do or you might miraculously be able to laugh at the situations you find yourself in as opposed to cry.
Monday nights may just become funnier than they were before, hurrah!
