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The lowdown: 'Fear, Stress & Anger' is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC2 between 22 February and 29 March 2007, It stars Peter Davison and Pippa Haywood as Martin and Julie Chadwick, a baby-boomer couple with two daughters in their twenties who still live at home and an elderly mother living in a nursing home. Martin is an advertising executive who developed the successful S-Bend Sally marketing campaign for a toilet cleaner, while Julie is a civil servant at the local council. The first episode sees Martin's job downsized when his boss forces him to work from home as a consultant, reporting to the young assistant who, in his own words, was hired solely to remove the woody bits from his Chinese herbal tea. Martin hates working from home and reporting to his assistant via webcam, while Julie is upset because she fails to protect a tree from being cut down. Martin has dreamed of writing his own book, and is rather put out when his daughter gets a job helping her university to write a book, which involves going to Iraq. Meanwhile, he has to deal with plumbers, the family pet dog who gets into a number of scrapes and is taken into care by the RSPCA, and an unpleasant dinner with a couple who constantly argue. And that is just episode one... The
verdict: 'Fear, Stress & Anger' is an entertaining sitcom that benefits
from good scripts and two good leading
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