Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner
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Robert Popper's brilliant sitcom returns for a fourth series and begins with shocking news

Robert Popper’s brilliant sitcom returns for a fourth series and begins with shocking news. Not only does Dad (Paul Ritter) have a friend, but Tony – one of the Two Tonys with whom he shared digs at university – is coming round for dinner. But – disaster! – he's invited the wrong Tony and the family are lumbered with Terrible Tony (Jason Watkins), purveyor of awful jokes and a man who blinks for too long. Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) sit back to enjoy the entertainment as an evening that begins as a ‘s****ing nightmare’, according to Dad, heads steadily downhill…