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A comedy series based on Nick Hornby's novel about a young woman who becomes a comedy star in 1960s London. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out more about the show on IMDb.
- (2.8K)
- 2024-01-07
- Comedy
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Funny Woman is a British drama television series directed by Oliver Parker and adapted for the screen by Morwenna Banks from the best-selling novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby.
Jan 13, 2024 · Funny Woman season 2 will catch up with lovable Barbara Parker, played again by Gemma Arterton. Barbara is a working-class woman from Blackpool who in Funny Woman series one managed to make her name in a major TV sitcom in the Swinging Sixties, despite being a woman in a hugely male-dominated world.
Follow Barbara Parker, a former Miss Blackpool, as she pursues her dream of becoming a comedian in London. Watch her face the challenges and opportunities of being a funny woman in a male-dominated industry.
Funny Woman is a TV series about Barbara Parker, a beauty queen who tries to make it as a comedian in the male-dominated sitcom industry of the 1960s. The series features Gemma Arterton, Rupert Everett, David Threlfall and more in the cast.
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- Gemma Arterton
- Oliver Parker
- October 1, 2022
Funny Woman. Season 1. It’s the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool--but there’s got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is.
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May 18, 2022 · Funny Woman is inspired by a time when the television sitcom was in its infancy and when women were expected to be merely decorative or the butt of the joke....
