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Play for Today

2025 · 2 seasons

A quiet, serious collection of standalone social dramas, each one asking you to sit with ordinary British lives and their unspoken strains.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Revival of the 1970s and 80s series of individual plays, originally shown on the BBC, now freshly-commissioned for Channel 5 and a whole new era of life in Britain.
How it feels
Measured and needs your attention.
About
Class, family, identity, isolation
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Created by
    Lydia Marchant, Simon Warne
    Written by
    David Whitehouse, Lydia Marchant, Martha Watson Allpress, Simon Warne
    Starring
    Anita Dobson, Nigel Havers, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Natasha Williams, Nina Wadia, Michael Fenton Stevens, Jon Bard, Paula Kay
    Length
    2 seasons, 8 episodes
    Network
    5
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Languages
    English

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