Trevor's World of Sport

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Trevor's World of Sport
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Cast of Trevor's World of Sport
Genre Sitcom
Written by Andy Hamilton
Directed by Andy Hamilton
Starring Neil Pearson
Paul Reynolds
Rosalind Ayres
Abdul Salis
Cosima Shaw
Claire Skinner
ComposerMatthew Scott
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producersDenise O'Donoghue
Jimmy Mulville
ProducerSue Howells
Running time30 mins
Production company Hat Trick Productions
Original release
Network BBC One
Release15 August (2003-08-15) 
6 October 2003 (2003-10-06)
Trevor's World of Sport
Genre Sitcom
Running time30 mins
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Syndicates BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring Neil Pearson
Paul Reynolds
Rosalind Ayres
Abdul Salis
Cosima Shaw
Claire Skinner
Written by Andy Hamilton
Original release20 August 2004 (2004-08-20) 
22 February 2007 (2007-02-22)
No. of series3
No. of episodes18
Website Radio 4 Extra episode guide

Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. One series of the television series was made, followed by three series which were aired on BBC Radio 4, as a continuation of the television series.

Contents

Cast

Plot

The series is set in the world of TS Sports – a sports public relations firm, run by Trevor Heslop and his partner, the lascivious Sammy Dobbs (Paul Reynolds). Trevor is portrayed as an essentially decent, honest man in the corrupt money-obsessed industry of sporting celebrity, who is still deeply in love with his estranged wife Meryl (Claire Skinner). The other TS Sports office staff are the cool German receptionist Heidrun (Cosima Shaw), whose lesbianism obsesses Sammy; the young black trainee Barry (Abdul Salis); and strongly Christian office manager Theresa (Rosalind Ayres).

Andy Hamilton also appears in a minor role within the show, and several actors who have worked in his other comedy shows for television and radio appear. Neil Pearson was in Hamilton's Drop the Dead Donkey , as (briefly) was Michael Fenton Stevens who plays TS Sports' only regular client, fading celebrity Ralph Renton.

Episodes

The television series

EpisodeOriginal broadcast date
115 August 2003
222 August 2003
329 August 2003
415 September 2003 (postponed from 5 September)
522 September 2003 (postponed from 12 September)
629 September 2003
76 October 2003

The radio series

Series 1

EpisodeEpisode titleOriginal broadcast date
1Jason20 August 2004
2Ethics27 August 2004
3Samantha3 September 2004
4Antonia10 September 2004
5Divorce17 September 2004
6Quiz24 September 2004

Series 2

EpisodeEpisode titleOriginal broadcast date
1Work Experience29 November 2005
2Dog6 December 2005
3Stalker13 December 2005
4Trust20 December 2005
5Marathon27 December 2005
6French3 January 2006

Series 3

EpisodeOriginal broadcast date
118 January 2007
225 January 2007
31 February 2007
48 February 2007
515 February 2007
622 February 2007

Television Rescheduling

Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers, dropping to 2.9 million for the second and third episodes. The subsequent episodes were rescheduled from Friday evenings (just after the 9:00pm watershed) to Monday nights (after the 10:00pm news), despite the Radio Times issues having already been published listing the originally scheduled transmission dates. Hamilton went public with his displeasure over the show's scheduling and vowed never to work for BBC1 again, though he has since changed his mind. [1] A radio version was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, with subsequent series in 2005 and 2007.

DVD release

The complete television series was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK on 6 May 2013.

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References

  1. Hamilton said in February 2009 that since those who made the decisions have now moved on, "it would have been daft to nurse that grievance for ever". I did it my way: Andy Hamilton, BBC Radio 7, 09:00 21 February 2009.