Small Potatoes (1999 TV series)

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Small Potatoes
Genre Sitcom
Written by Richard Pinto
Sharat Sardana
Directed by Paul Duane
Starring Tommy Tiernan
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Omid Djalili
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes13
Production
Producer Richard Pinto
Running time25 minutes
Production company Hat Trick Productions
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release9 November 1999 (1999-11-09) 
11 September 2001 (2001-09-11)

Small Potatoes is a British sitcom television series written by Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001. Starring Tommy Tiernan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Morgan Jones and Omid Djalili, it is set in East London and follows the life of a video rental shop employee, Ed Hewitt, and his friends.

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Synopsis

Underachieving twenty-something Ed Hewitt (Tommy Tiernan) has a media studies degree, but he works in a video shop in Leytonstone; however, he tries not to descend to the level of his layabout friends and fellow workers. [1]

Episodes

Small Potatoes ran for 13 episodes over two series. [2]

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