TRANSMISSION DETAILS FOR SERIES 3

The Hannah Spencer Show - Saturday April 26th 9.00pm
Contains innuendo and a sex reference

The Man With The Moustache and Leather Trousers - Saturday May 3rd 9.00pm
Contains innuendo and adult humour

Girlfriend - Saturday May 10th 9.00pm
Contains innuendo and sex references

Fu Manchu Is A Pretend Person - Saturday May 17th 9.00pm
Contains innuendo

Treading The Boards - Saturday May 24th 9.00pm
Contains a mild sex reference

Paintball - Saturday May 31st 9.00pm
Contains mild bad language and a sex reference

One Flew Into The Cuckoos Nest - Saturday June 7th 9.00pm
No guidance required

L Plates - Saturday June 14th 9.00pm
Contains a mild sex reference

HANNAH IS COMING BACK BETTER THAN EVER

After the pilot episode and the seven episodes that followed in Series 1 last year, not to mention the Christmas Special, another 7 episodes are winging their way to you very soon as Series 2 brings Hannah, her family and her friends back for more rollocking adventures!

The new series was recorded in a studio without an audience.  The sound is better than ever and the ambient sounds less intrusive, plus the theme has been given a wonderful makeover and the humour -- well, it's as naughty as ever, laden with innuendo and sex talk.

So what are you in store for this time round -- well, the series starts with Hannah's office being filmed for a documentary fronted by a hunky TV star that Hannah is crazy about and then finds Hannah trying to overcome her fear of flying when necessity puts her on a plane to Glasgow.  If that's not enough for Hannah to navigate, she decides to try and lie her way into an executive job, taking advantage of her firm's positive discrimination policy, tries to convince Tim that their new neighbours and up to no good and goes on a diet and exercise binge against the advice of...well, everybody really..  She also has to deal with a lost college hamster and when she is given the chance to be at her own funeral, she goes all out to make people think she's dead so she can hear what they say about her.

The fabulous Nanu Chumber reprises her role as Hannah, with Robert Chantler as Tim, Giovanni Tagliarini as Josh, Caroline Palmer as Karen and Geoff Buckingham as Tony all making welcome returns. 

There is new talent too, with Niamh Mallott taking on the role of Hannah's slightly stoned spiritualist friend, Maddie and Sue Forde playing Polish cleaning lady, Anya. 

Martin Clarke, Heather Harrisson, Philippa Stuart, Danny Maynard, Jo Maynard, Robert Hardy, Alan Saunders, Mark Hover and Tina Turner all pop up in wonderful cameo roles and loads of belly-aching laughs are assured, plus at the end of the series, a collection of outtakes!

Keep an eye on the blog for more details, and catch up with Series 1 and the Christmas Special on You Tube.  The Special can also be heard on the Listen Again Play On Wey feature on Radio Wey's website - www.radiowey.co.uk

Series 2 Part 1

The first four episodes of Series 2 will be recordrd in March with the second half recording planned for April/May.  To assist in sales of the episodes a copyright and royalty free theme tune will be used and between scene jingles that complement it.  The plan is to record subsequent series without an audience for reasons of logistics and cost.  While the style might be different you can be assured that the characters and humour will not change :)

EPISODE GUIDE

Series 1 (2012)

SOMETHING UNDER THE SOFA

Hannah and Tim battle a sofa monster with the help of Hannah’s stoned spiritualist friend

MONDAY MORNINGS CAN LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS

A surprise visit from the company CEO sends Hannah into a panic.

THERE’S NEVER A PRIVATE DETECTIVE WHEN YOU NEED ONE

Hannah suspects that Tim is having an affair with her best friend when she finds a strange bra in his bedside drawer.

BEWARE THE ANAL PROBE

Hannah becomes convinced that an alien spaceship is watching her house and forces Tim to call in some UFO experts

BEDTIME

Hannah decides she needs a new bed and drags Tim along to the bed showroom.

THE FIRST AID COURSE

A first aid course proves too much for Hannah, even though Tim and her assistant, Karen go along too.

THE BAD SAMARITAN

Hannah is rejected from the Samaritans and plans to stage a fake suicide attempt so she can appear to be a heroine.

GLASTONBURY

Karen and Hannah head off to a music festival where the hygiene standards are far from Hannah’s standards

THE FATHER CHRISTMAS FACTOR (CHRISTMAS SPECIAL)

Hannah and Tim play host to two sets of in-laws and two nieces while Tim gets stuck up a chimney

*All the episodes in Series 1 were recorded with a studio audience

Series 2 (2013)

FLY ON THE WALL

A documentary film crew come to Hannah’s office to make a fly on the wall programme about her department.

TURBULENCE

A reluctant Hannah flies to a conference with Karen and  has to contend with an aircraft toilet and a fat passenger as well as her nerves.

POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION

Hannah lies on her CV that she is living with her friend Maddie and is a lesbian Buddhist in order to try to benefit from her company’s positive discrimination policy.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

Hannah becomes obsessed with the idea that her new neighbours are up to no good and sets out to prove she’s right.

DIET HARD

A woman in a supermarket tells Hannah she’s fat and this sets in motion a desire to slim at any cost and by any means.

HAMSTER COME HOME

The college hamster escapes whilst on loan to the Spencer family, and buying a replacement proves difficult.

THE LATE HANNAH SPENCER

The local paper accidentally prints Hannah’s obituary and she takes the opportunity to see what people say about her at her funeral.

IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL WHAT WOULD YOU BE

Psychometric tests at work prove stressful for Hannah.

Series 3

THE MAN WITH THE MOUSTACHE AND LEATHER TROUSERS

Tim has to prove he isn’t gay when Maddie tells Hannah she saw him leaving a gay bar.

GIRLFRIEND

Hannah unexpectedly discovers that her son Josh is seeing a girl.

TREADING THE BOARDS

A washed out Shakespearean actor asks Hannah to act alongside him.

DON’T MENTION SLITTY EYES

A Chinese business delegation come to do a deal with Hannah’s department and as Office Manager she has to host things – oh dear!

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE

At Maddie’s wedding reception, a rather drunk Hannah causes some problems.

THE HANNAH SPENCER SHOW

Hannah gets a show on the local hospital radio station, and is mentored by a real hunk.

ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO’S NEST

Hannah discovers their new lodger is a psychiatrist and plots to get rid of him.

L PLATES

Hannah borrows a driving simulator in an attempt to pass her driving test.

Series 4

THESE HALLOWED HALLS

Hannah and Tim go to Birmingham to visit Josh at uni and Hannah loses her knickers.

BET YOU CAN’T EAT THREE

A change in job leads to Tim getting constipation, and Hannah’s keen to get things moving again

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

Hannah spends most of her Friday the 13^th in the local casualty department

CAN’T SPEAK FRENCH

Hannah and Tim host Josh’s university girlfriend and some French exchange students

BETWEEN THE SHEETS (by Geoff Buckingham)

Tony sends Hannah to someone he thinks is a bestselling author to help her write a novel but unfortunately gets the address wrong.

DE-BRIEF

Josh wakes up minus his pants and with his friend, sets out to retrace the events of the night before.

BORDERLINE

Hannah has a choice – six months in prison or a psychiatrist’s assessment.  She chooses the latter but her efforts to appear sane just make her seem more mental.

CASANOVA IS ALIVE AND WELL

A lecherous new work colleague sets his cap at Hannah but Tim’s not enough of a man to do anything about it -- will he man up before feisty Polish cleaner Anya does the job?

Series 5

KITTEN ON THE KEYS

Hannah wants to learn the piano and convinces Tim that he does too.

THE LAST BRITISH RAIL BRA IN CAPTIVITY

Josh gets involved in an Ebay scam.

SO HAUNT ME

Hannah believes she was cursed on a trip to a haunted abbey and calls on Maddie to exorcise her

SPEED DATING

Hannah and Tim end up at a speed dating event by mistake and decide it would be fun to pretend to be single; however, they meet dates they actually really like.

SOMETHING THAT RHYMES WITH BANKER

An inept bank robber and his sidekick are driven mad when they take Hannah and some bank customers hostage.

LONG TIME, NO SEE

Hannah and Tim go to a university reunion and wish they hadn’t bothered.

POSH JOSH

Hannah lies to Sir Charles (the CEO) so she can borrow his mansion to impress the posh parents of Josh’s new girlfriend.

STAND CLEAR

Hannah attends a defibrillation course with Karen and finds the trainer very much to her liking.

THE NATIVITY (CHRISTMAS SPECIAL)

Hannah and family join in with the church nativity and Hannah tries to matchmake on behalf of Karen’s son.

Series 6 (Scripts not written yet)

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND (by Geoff Buckingham)

Hannah takes a Saturday job in the chemist’s and mixes up the prescriptions.

RING A RING A RING ROAD

Hannah and Tim visit Hannah’s dad in Birmingham – well, they try to anyway

SCORING FOR FUN (by Geoff Buckingham)

Tim begins to do football commentaries for a local radio station and Hannah interferes

BOWLING A MAIDEN OVER (by Geoff Buckingham)

Hannah causes trouble at a local cricket match

THAT ELUSIVE SMILE (by Nanu Chumber)

Hannah enters a modelling contest to try to win some shopping vouchers.

GROUP HUG

Hannah gets addicted to support groups when she realises how much fun she could have.

JOINT LIABILITY

Hannah and Tim find a joint in Josh’s room and smoke it.  Then Josh comes home unexpectedly.
PAINTBALL

Tony’s idea of team bonding is to send his department paintballing while he finds a quiet spot to watch.

PLANS FOR 2013

In 2013, the plan is to record Hannah Series 2 and 3 without an audience, with the hope that Series 2 will be broadcast in the Summer of 2013, and Series 3 in the Summer of 2014.  As Series 4 has been written, there is the possibility that this might be recorded too during the year for a 2015 broadcast.

Meanwhile, the Christmas Special and all the episodes broadcast so far remain on You Tube.

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - CHRISTMAS DAY 8.00pm

The Christmas Special was well attended and everyone enjoyed the show, the mulled wine and the mince pies and we had a lucky ticket winner who walked off with a nice cash prize.

It is likely that subsequent series will be made without an audience for logistical reasons mainly and so this was an even more special event than it might otherwise have been.

The show will be broadcast on Radio Wey at 8pm on Christmas Day and repeated (details to be confirmed) and will be on You Tube from January 2013 where Series 1 already is.

It's going to be great so if you missed out on being in the audience, you can enjoy the fun and for those of you who came along, it will be a nice reminder of the evening.

It's a warm hearted and happy story as you'd expect and there's loads of innuendo-laden humour and crazy antics!

A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THE CHARACTERS

HANNAH SPENCER is extremely neurotic, being multiply phobic, highly superstititous and always like a coiled spring.  She can be reckless and impulsive, clingy and manipulative, with a fear of psychiatrists and an insistence that she is as sane as the next person.  She is good hearted though, and loves her family, who generally just keep their heads down and let her do what she likes.

TIM SPENCER is a scientist and academic, a world weary and rather jaded, quiet man who can keep Hannah on a lead when necessary but would prefer a quiet life.

JOSH SPENCER is their teenage son, and unlike most teenage boys who find their parents an ebarrassment, he actually has cause to.  Not too rebellious, he just keeps his head down and lets his mother's eccentricities wash over him.

KAREN is Hannah's assistant at work.  She is level headed and calm, but can be quite barbed at times.  She quietly despairs of Hannah but is still fond of her and the two of them have their "slut banter" which usually occurs whenever a double-entendre rears it head.

TONY is Hannah's boss, so laid back he is horizontal, extremely lazy and only in his job because he is very good at grovelling to the company CEO.

JOE is Hannah's dad.  A brummie through and through, he is also a widower, living alone in Birmingham and occasionally dropping in on Hannah.  He was a music hall comedian and entertainer and is even madder than his daughter -- you can certainly see where she gets it from.

GEORGE and HELENA are Tim's parents.  Helena is a real snob while George is more down to earth.  They are recently retired civil servants.

BECKY, MARK, JESSICA and CHARLOTTE - Becky is Hannah's sister.  Mark is her partner.  They are both "normal" and have two girls.  The girls are left with Hannah and Tim at Christmas while Becky and Mark try to shore up their relationship.

Joe, George and Helena, Becky, Mark, Jessica and Charlotte are all new to the Christmas special.