Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9667 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 202 minutes

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Steve Coogan stars as Tommy Saxondale, the world-travelled ex-roadie with anger-management issues and a pest control business in Stevenage in this funny BBC 2 series. Over the seven episodes of Saxondale Series 1, Tommy gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute, almost befriends a celebrity, kneecaps an annoying hippy... and experiments with women's makeup.

You see, Tom Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose, shoots from the hip, and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tom never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades, he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years, but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire. After a hostile divorce, Tommy has found his soulmate in Magz, proprietress of an anarchic T-shirt shop.

Starring: Steve Coogan (Tommy Saxondale), Ruth Jones (Magz), Rasmus Hardiker (Raymond), Morwenna Banks (Vicky), James Bachman (Therapist).

Saxondale is written by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan; script edited and episode one directed by Ben Miller; directed by Matt Lipsey (Supernova,Catterick, Little Britain).

Synopsis
Tom Saxondale is someone that has been to hell and back and lived to tell the tale. He lives life fast and tells is as it is. Having lived the life of a roadie for 20 years, he's now a pest-control expert in Hertfordshire. With a failed marriage behind him, Tom has found romance with Magz; the quirky proprietor of a T-shirt shop. Comic icon Steve Coogan is Tom Saxondale in this sly and irreverent comedy series.

The Sunday Times
'A creation of comic brilliance'

Customer Reviews

A grower.

Fans of Steve Coogan wanting an instant hit of his genius will have to be a little more patient with Saxondale. Once you've viewed a few episodes the quality of this series comes through. Saxondale is something quite different in the comedy world at the moment. Its comedy is mixed into the day to day life of the very realistic character of 'Tommy'(Coogan), and his daily grind at work. I'm also happy to report that series 2 so far has been brilliant. All in all a must for fans of Coogan, but also worth a try if you want a comedy that is not just laugh out loud funny at times, but thought provoking and intelligent.

Enjoy...

Fantastic!
Whatever Coogan does, it will always be compared to Alan Partridge who is, in my opinion, one of the greatest characters ever created. Partridge is admittedly a very hard act to follow. However, Saxondale manages it, even though he is a much more understated personality. He's still got Partridge traits - he's socially inept and always inappropriate, even desperate. Having seen the second series, he has now come into his own. The regular characters are brilliant too. The anger management classes make this worth watching alone. The world would not be such a great place if Coogan had never invented Partridge, and now he's bought me fresh laughs with Saxondale. I love it and if you like Partridge, give it a go. It's definitely a grower.

another brilliant Coogan character
On a scale of outrageousness, the character doesn't quite reach the same level as Alan Partridge but the series is hysterically funny all the same. The setup is brilliant - a slightly bitter ex-roadie pest controller with an anger-management problem; this has the making of typical Coogan-type comedy with some supremely embarassing situations - my personal favourites being Saxondale's pathetic attempts to cover-up kinky sex-games he plays with his girlfriend from his assistant/lodger(he sits down to breakfast wearing lipstick) and his Hollywood-style speech in order to preserve his girlfriend Magz's right to display material in her shop window that all of the other traders find to be 'obscene'.
The other regulars are fantastically acted, particularly Morwenna Banks as the sniping secretary and there are some great guest appearances from Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.