Annie Griffin
Director
The Book Group (2002)
Season 1
First series of the dark comedy about a dysfunctional book group in Glasgow. A lonely Clare has just moved to Scotland and is extremely keen to meet some new, interesting people. Naturally, she decides to start a book group...
Released April 12, 2002
Episode 27 min
14+
Keywords: tmdb.scotland, tmdb.glasgow-scotland, tmdb.book-club, imdb.tea, imdb.footballers-wife, imdb.book-discussion, imdb.biscuit + 11 more, imdb.book, imdb.scotland, imdb.love, imdb.loneliness, imdb.friendship, imdb.disability, imdb.gay-interest, imdb.closeted-homosexual, tmdb.friendship, tmdb.writing, tmdb.books
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Production Companies: Pirate Productions
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - On the Road
Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...
April 12, 2002, midnight
S1E2 - The Alchemist
Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...
April 19, 2002, midnight
S1E3 - Magical Realism
Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.
April 26, 2002, midnight
S1E4 - Bedtime Stories
Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.
May 3, 2002, midnight
S1E5 - Dark Alley
Janice hosts the book group as they discuss the book written by the author she is having an affair with. But the group can't seem to focus on their subject.
May 10, 2002, midnight
S1E6 - A Little More Living
Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?
May 17, 2002, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 27 min.
Season Runtime: 324 min.
Released: April 12, 2002
Last Air Date: Feb. 28, 2003, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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