Avoidance (TV series)

Avoidance is a British comedy drama television series made for BBC One starring Romesh Ranganathan, Lisa McGrillis, Mandeep Dhillion, Jessica Knappett and Kieran Logendra. The show consisted of six episodes and was broadcast in consecutive weeks from 10 June 2022. A second series was commissioned in May 2023.

Avoidance
Written by
Directed byBenjamin Green
Starring
Kieran Logendra
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
  • Michelle Farr-Scott
  • Benjamin Green
  • Romesh Ranganathan
  • Danielle Lux
ProducerArnold Widdowson
Production companies
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release10 June 2022 (2022-06-10) –
present (present)

Plot

Thrown out by his partner Claire, Jonathan is so desperate to avoid difficult conversations, that rather than telling his son that his mum and dad are splitting up, he takes the young Spencer to hide out with his sister Danielle and her wife Courtney.[1]

Cast

Production

The project was announced by the BBC in January 2022 with Benjamin Green and Romesh Ranganathan as show creators via their own production company Ranga Bee with CPL Productions with Benjamin Green as director and McGrillis and Knappett as co-stars. [2][3] Some filming took place in Bracknell,[4] and Berkhamsted.[5]

A second series was revealed to be commissioned by the BBC in May 2023.[6]

Broadcast

Episode one aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9:30pm on Friday 10 June, 2022.[7]

Reception

Lucy Mangan in The Guardian described a “gentle, truthful, beautifully performed comedy about the ultimate beta male”.[8] The show was negatively reviewed in The Daily Telegraph which labelled it “sad-com bore” with Marianka Swain saying “I think we’re supposed to sympathise with Jonathan, who may have some underlying mental health issues…But in the two episodes that I’ve seen, he’s essentially a black hole of denial and failure sucking in everyone around him.[9]

References
  1. "Meet the cast of Avoidance". Radio Times.
  2. "Romesh Ranganathan creates, writes and stars in new comedy series Avoidance for BBC One and BBC iPlayer". BBC. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  3. White, James (18 January 2022). "Romesh Ranganathan Co-Creating And Starring In New BBC Comedy Series Avoidance". Empire. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  4. "Avoidance' BBC comedy sitcom filmed in Bracknell". Bracknell News.
  5. "Avoidance: Film crews take over Berkhamsted High Street for Romesh Ranganathan BBC show". Herts Live.
  6. "Romesh Ranganathan's Avoidance gets second series". Comedy.co.uk. 24 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  7. "Avoidance: Release date, cast and latest news for Romesh Ranganathan sitcom". Radio Times.
  8. Mangan, Lucy (10 June 2022). "Avoidance review – Romesh Ranganathan may make you feel seen in the worst way". The Guardian.
  9. Swain, Marianka (10 June 2022). "Avoidance, review: Romesh Ranganathan's sadcom creation is a punishing bore". The Telegraph.

Avoidance at IMDb

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