Miranda (TV series)

Miranda
Genre	Sitcom[1][2][3][4][5] Cringe comedy[1] Farce
Created by	Miranda Hart
Written by	Miranda Hart
Directed by	Juliet May Mandie Fletcher
Starring	Miranda Hart Tom Ellis Sarah Hadland Patricia Hodge Sally Phillips James Holmes Adrian Scarborough Bo Poraj Naomi Bentley
Theme music composer	Alex Eckford
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Jo Sargent
Producers	Nerys Evans (2009) Emma Strain (2010–2013) Sarah Fraser (2014–2015)
Production locations	BBC Television Centre (2009–2013) The London Studios (2014–2015 specials)
Camera setup	Multi-camera Video (2009–2015) HD video (on location 2014–2015)
Running time	30 minutes 35 minutes (2014–2015 specials)
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	9 November 2009 (2009-11-09) – 20 December 2010 (2010-12-20)
Network	BBC One
Release	26 December 2012 (2012-12-26) – 1 January 2015 (2015-01-01)
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Call Me Kat
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Miranda is a British television sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart. It originally aired on BBC Two from 9 November 2009, and later on BBC One. Developed from Hart's semi-autobiographical BBC Radio 2 comedy Miranda Hart's Joke Shop (2008), the situation comedy revolves around socially inept Miranda, who frequently finds herself in awkward situations. The show features actors Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge, Sally Phillips, James Holmes and Bo Poraj. It was taped in front of live audiences at the BBC Television Centre and The London Studios.

Receiving positive reviews from television critics, Miranda won a Royal Television Society award and gained several BAFTA TV Award nominations.^[6][7][8] The series has since been regularly repeated on British television and is available in the United States through Hulu.^[9]

The episodes revolve around the difficulties that Miranda (Miranda Hart) gets herself into. She is 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) tall and, sometimes mistaken for a man, is addressed as 'Sir'. She has never fitted in with her old boarding school friends, Tilly (Sally Phillips) and Fanny (Katy Wix), and finds social situations awkward, especially around men. She is a constant disappointment to her mother, Penny (Patricia Hodge), who is desperate for her to get a proper job and a husband. Although Miranda owns and lives above her own joke shop and boutique, she lacks any real capacity for business, so it is managed by her childhood friend Stevie Sutton (Sarah Hadland). The restaurant next door is initially run by Clive Evans (James Holmes), until series three, when the restaurant's chef, Gary Preston (Tom Ellis), purchases it from him. After many failed attempts at dating, Miranda and Gary, a friend from university whom Miranda fancies, decide to be just friends. Nevertheless, when Gary gets a girlfriend called Rose (Naomi Bentley), it prompts Miranda to start a new relationship with Michael Jackford (Bo Poraj), a local reporter whose work soon takes him to Africa. Upon his return he proposes to Miranda, as does Gary when he realises his love for her. Miranda accepts Gary's proposal rather than Michael's, and Miranda and Gary get married in the final episode.