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The Smoking Room: Series 1 | 
 enlarge | Director: Gareth Carrivick
Actors: Fraser Ayres, Paula Wilcox, Debbie Chazen, Selina Griffiths, Emma Kennedy
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  11 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 228 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014503174125
ASIN: B000ASALQK
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: February 6, 2006
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Condition: Direct From The Distributors
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 Great observational comedy December 13, 2005
MATTHEW SHEPPARD (BRISTOL, UK)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a downbeat, hilarious comedy detailing the kind of various oddballs that inhabit each and every office smoking room in the country. Each of the main characters are excellent, from scrounger Annie, big-mouthed but sweet Sally, dowdy but lovely Janet and the permanent resident of the smoking room, Robin. It's well thought out and doesn't have canned laughter either, which is always a plus!! For £15 you can't really go wrong.
 If you have a sense of humour, you'll love it January 17, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant, often hilarious, always subtly observed comedy set in an office's smoking room. The characters are a group of semi-tragic misfits with nothing in common except their nicotine addiction, and all are wonderfully played. Yes, it is probably the most "profanity"-filled show on TV, but only the most uptight and repressed of Daily Mail readers will object; the rest of us will be too busy sniggering. If, like the previous 'reviewer', you have some OCD-style aversion to swearing (or to being amused), there's always the re-runs of 'Last of the Summer Wine' on UK Gold.
BBC3 strikes comedy gold March 1, 2006
Daniel Arnold
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
There are some who say the BBC has not made a decent comedy save "The Office" in the last decade. These people have plainly either never been near a telly in the last five years, or have theirs permanantly stuck on BBC1 - for "The Smoking Room" is one of many fantastic ones which has arrived through the medium of BBC3. Why the BBC fills up channels 1 and 2 with repeats and rubbish and then purports to need a new channel for anything good is beyond me, but that's not the point. The point is that, for the (scandalously low) number of peopple that have watched it, this is a true gem.
At first it appears rather sterile, set, as it is, entirely in an office smoking room - yet the array of characters is so bewilderingly thorough that I lose track of how many there are, and they are all - in their own, utterly unintentional ways - hilarious.
For me, the star of the show is Robin (played by Jeremy from "Peep Show"), the manic-depressive closet-gay whose frustration, despair and desperate attempts to hide the truth pepper each episode. But others may give the crown to Len, the foul-mouthed security guard known to his own nephew as "Uncle ---Off"; or to Clint, the guy who is upposed to fix things but thinks it acceptable to leave people stuck in a lift while he has his next fag break, and has the intellectual capacity of an amoeba; or even to poor old Barry, the crossword addict who is hilariously inept at crosswords. I could go on.
The show also ingeniously introduces new characters gradually, meaning it never gets dull. Some even don't smoke - for instance the prattish Gordon, who embarasses himself at rtegular intervals, and the terminally dull Heidi, a smug new mum who no-one even noticed had gone when on maternity leave.
Because of the wealth of characters and back stories, the show never gets dull despite the limited setting, and could conceivably run and run for a while to come. I hope it does.
Surprisingly Good April 3, 2006
Andrew J. Codling (Surrey, UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Having not seen this show before buying the DVD I was relying upon the reviews here in Amazon.All I can say is thank you everyone very much, this is one of the best comedies I have seen in years. There is a fair amount of swearing, but if you turn the sound off when Len comes into the room you will miss a lot. The star of the show, if there is one, is Robin, who doesn't actually seem to have a job as all he does is smoke, but the other characters are so well played that to a great extent they are all stars. My own favourite characters are Janet, a non-smoker who is the PA to the worst boss you can imagine who tends to end up in the smoking room, Heidi, a woman so boring no-one noticed that she was on maternity leave (a particular favourite bit was her french kissing a stuffed Panda), and Annie who is completely self obsessed, but never seems to have any fags. Anyway buy this, you won't regret it
The Smoking Room February 1, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is one of the best BBC sitcoms made in the last ten years. It can take a couple of episodes for the viewer to atune to the slow burn of this show but they'll be duly rewarded with some laughs in the most unexpected places. The actors playing the bunch of incongrous addicts are about as good as it gets. I loved it.
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