Reception
The film was watched by more than 10 million viewers.
After going on location during filming, James Rampton for The Independent said that the film "contains many lines of vintage Victoria. ... And – judging from the script – the film is not a three-minute idea tortuously spun out over 90, but a living, breathing feature, with characters rather than caricatures and pathos rather than punchlines." Writing for Screenonline, Mark Duguid says the drama is Wood's "most ambitious, rounded and mature work to date" and describes it as "rapturously received". On Wood's comparisons with Alan Bennett, he says that she "certainly shares Bennett's gift for characterisation and his ear for comic but natural dialogue". The Daily Telegraph's Judith Woods described the film, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, Dinnerladies and Acorn Antiques as "character-led television gems".
The film won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for best single drama, and the best actress and best screenplay awards at the Reims Television Festival. The drama was also nominated for two British Academy Television Awards in 1994: best single drama, and best actress for Wood.
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