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television comedy series set in

Hebburn Hebburn is a town in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It governed under the borough of South Tyneside; formerly governed under the county of Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the south ...

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastl ...

. The six-part series commenced broadcasting on

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on 18 October 2012 starring

Kimberley Nixon Kimberley Nixon (born 24 September 1985) is a Welsh actor, actress. Nixon is known for her role as Sophy Hutton in the BBC One period drama ''Cranford (TV series), Cranford'', and appearances in various films such as ''Wild Child (film), Wild C ...

and Chris Ramsey. The show is written by Jason Cook and

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and follows the recently wedded couple Jack and Sarah alongside Jack's family. The show received a mixed critical reaction, including criticism from residents of the town on which it was based. A Christmas special was commissioned as well as a second series, which began airing on

on 12 November 2013. In March 2014 it was announced by the BBC that ''Hebburn'' would not be returning for a third series.

Plot

The series follows the Pearson family, Joe (

Vic Reeves James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959), better known by his stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, surrealist, musician, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer as Reeves & Mortimer. ...

, credited under his real name, Jim Moir) and Pauline (

Gina McKee Georgina "Gina" McKee (born 14 April 1964) is an English actress. She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for ''Our Friends in the North'' (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for ''The Lost Prince'' (2003) and ''The Street'' (2 ...

) and their son Jack ( Chris Ramsey), who secretly married a middle-class Jewish woman, Sarah (

), in a drunken binge in

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Development and production

''Hebburn'' was created by comic Jason Cook, inspired by

South Tyneside South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear – Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the nor ...

, the town in which he was raised. It was piloted in October 2011 through a live performance as part of the Salford Sitcom Showcase at

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. A six-part series was then commissioned by Channel X North and

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's production company

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. Cook co-wrote the series with

, who had written the sitcom ''

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''. Chris Ramsey, a comic from

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. According to the 20 ...

, was cast to play Jack Pearson, with

as his new wife, Sarah.

(credited under his real name, Jim Moir) and

were cast as his parents. The show also featured Geordie actors Victoria Elliott and

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, alongside performances from North East stand-ups Steffen Peddie, Barry Dodds and

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. Principal photography began with a week's shoot on location in

on 23 April 2012, with the production based at High Lane Social Club in the town. Park Road, the street on which Cook was raised, prominently featured in the shoot. Following the location shoot in South Tyneside, the production moved to its main base at studios in

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. The series concluded with Joe, played by Moir, having a

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at Jack and Sarah's wedding. Writer Jason Cook says that this was important for him as his own father had a stroke, "so that was like a love letter to my mum and dad." His father's stroke had inspired Cook's critically acclaimed 2007 stand-up show, ''My Confessions''. The fictitious pub in the show 'Swayze's' is an in joke for those familiar with Hebburn town, poking fun at a local run down pub called "The Road House" (Road House was a Patrick Swayze film). The exterior scenes of the pub where filmed outside "The Kelly" public house in Hebburn. Filming of the second series began in August 2013. It was announced in August that

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would join the cast for the second series, and, pending some teasing about Cook about a "propa legend" in the second series, it was revealed that Tim Healy would have a cameo role in the first episode of the second series. The series will also feature Toby Hadoke,

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and Terry Joyce.

Cast

* Chris Ramsey as Jack Pearson *

as Sarah Pearson *

as Pauline Pearson *

as Joe Pearson (credited as “Jim Moir”) *

as Vicki Pearson *Pat Dunn as Dot * Jason Cook as Ramsey *Curtis Appleby as Hutchy *

Kathryn Hunt Kathryn Hunt is a British actress best known for her roles as Angela Harris in ''Coronation Street'' and Val Lorrimer in Series 1–2 of ''Fat Friends''. She also appeared in '' Waterloo Road'' and ''The Royal''. Kathryn also starred in the B ...

as Siobhan *

Neil Grainger ''Hebburn'' is a BBC television comedy series set in Hebburn in Tyne and Wear. The six-part series commenced broadcasting on BBC Two on 18 October 2012 starring Kimberley Nixon and Chris Ramsey. The show is written by Jason Cook and Graham Duf ...

as Gervaise *Victoria Elliott as Denise *

Jan Ravens Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on ''Spitting Image'' and '' Dead Ringers''. Early life Ravens grew up in Hoylake, then in Cheshire, on the west side of the Wirral with he ...

as Susan *

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as Ben *Verity-May Henry as Marial *Steffen Peddie as Big Keith *Barry Dodds as The Heckler

Episodes

Series one

Series two

"Sleep in Hebburnly Peace" - Christmas Special

A Christmas special aired in December 2013 featuring

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as Millie, Sarah's grandmother. The special was the last-ever episode of the show, as it was axed in March 2014.

Reception

The first series received mixed reviews. ''The Guardian''s Sam Wollaston labelled the series "Hebburn Meh-burn", saying that its "neither brave nor original," claiming that the characters "don't behave or speak like real people, they behave and speak like a sitcom family." similarly, ''The Independent''s Tom Sutcliffe suggested "there's not a lot in ''Hebburn'' that you haven't seen before", comparing the show to ''

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''. However, Sutcliffe says that ''Hebburn'' "is quite distinctively its own thing", and praises the show's "sharpness of characterisation for them to show how good they can be right from the off." Some people from Hebburn, including a local councillor, objected to the show's portrayal of the town and its residents. However, despite the mixed critical reaction, a second series and Christmas special were commissioned, with writer Jason Cook revealing ambitions to launch a four-day comedy festival in the town. The second series, broadcast in autumn 2013, also received mixed reviews. Writing for ''The Guardian'',

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said: "It’s still not exactly subtle comedy, but the first episode of the new run turned out to have more gags than the whole of the first series combined. If scriptwriter Jason Cook can belatedly find his sense of humour, then so can the people of Hebburn." ''The Independent''s Ellen E Jones branded the series "a relic from a different era", saying that "it really belongs to that breed of untaxing sitcom in which the gentle laughs are so predictable that you could set your pacemaker by them." In contrast to the broadsheets, South Tyneside local newspaper ''

Shields Gazette The ''Shields Gazette'', established in 1849, is a daily newspaper. It was known as the oldest provincial evening newspaper in the United Kingdom. It was originally established as a weekly paper - the ''North and South Shields Gazette and Nort ...

''s Vicki Newman, who "was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access during filming", praised the show, writing that it "has so much heart that, to me, it was no surprise that it was commissioned for a second series. The show looks sharper, and it just feels bigger and better than the first series." In January 2013, ''Hebburn'' was voted the "Best New TV Sitcom" in the Comedy.co.uk Awards held by the

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. The show won the regional

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award in March 2013, and was nominated in the Best Comedy category in the

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DVD release

Only the first series has been released on DVD. The complete first series of Hebburn was released onto DVD on 26 November 2012. Series Two is available as a digital download only from Amazon.

References

External links

* * *{{IMDb title, 2263720 2010s British sitcoms 2012 British television series debuts 2013 British television series endings BBC television sitcoms English-language television shows Television shows set in Tyne and Wear