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The Book Group

Season 1 2002
TV-14

  • 2002-04-12T20:30:00Z on Channel 4
  • 25m
  • 2h 23m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
First series of the dark comedy about a dysfunctional book group in Glasgow. A lonely Clare has just moved to Scotland and is extremely keen to meet some new, interesting people. Naturally, she decides to start a book group...

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2002-04-12T20:30:00Z

1x01 On the Road

Series Premiere

1x01 On the Road

  • 2002-04-12T20:30:00Z24m

Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...

2002-04-19T20:30:00Z

1x02 The Alchemist

1x02 The Alchemist

  • 2002-04-19T20:30:00Z24m

Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...

2002-04-26T20:30:00Z

1x03 Magical Realism

1x03 Magical Realism

  • 2002-04-26T20:30:00Z23m

Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.

2002-05-03T20:30:00Z

1x04 Bedtime Stories

1x04 Bedtime Stories

  • 2002-05-03T20:30:00Z24m

Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.

2002-05-10T20:30:00Z

1x05 Dark Alley

1x05 Dark Alley

  • 2002-05-10T20:30:00Z24m

Janice hosts the book group as they discuss the book written by the author she is having an affair with. But the group can't seem to focus on their subject.

Season Finale

2002-05-17T20:30:00Z

1x06 A Little More Living

Season Finale

1x06 A Little More Living

  • 2002-05-17T20:30:00Z24m

Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?

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