Kiss Me Kate

Most recently produced comedies just don't hit the right spot for me. I tend to searcg UKGold each night for the real oldies and I watch them over and over again. However 'Kiss Me Kate' proved to be the exception. Kate, played by Caroline Quentin, is a counsellor and the programmes are set in her office or at her house. We rarely, if ever, see anything else. Mel (Amanda Holden) is Kate's secretary and Craig is her boyfriend. Douglas, played by Chris Langham who wrote the series. Douglas is quite odd and strange looking but he is the sort of character who finds that things go wrong around him and we all say 'ah, what a shame!'. ...  Read the complete review

I am one of those people who believes all the best sitcoms were written in the 1970s - Bless This House, Are You Being Served ?, Man About The House... But Kiss Me Kate is one recent sitcom I watch and love. It is so well written, well observed and the acting and timing of the cast are faultless. Caroline Quentin was outstanding in Men Behaving Badly, but in this sitcom, she plays a counsellor called Kate. Most of the action takes place in her office or at her house. Besides Kate, the main cast are Mel (played by Amanda Holden) who is Kate's secretary ; Douglas (played by Chris Langham, who also writes it) who is very strange but endearing ...  Read the complete review

This programme has recently returned for a new series on BBC1 and for anyone who watched the previous series and didn't enjoy it, I would urge you to give it another try. When I had seen the show before I hadn't thought it particularly funny and cannot remember actually watching a full episode, so when they started advertising its return I wasn't looking forward to it. As it happened there was nothing else on when the programme went out on a Saturday evening and so decided to give it a go, what a surprise it turned out to be. The cast is headed by Caroline Quentin as the Kate of the title. She works as a counsellor with Douglas (Chris ...  Read the complete review