Schoolteacher Helen Barker learns that her husband Tony has been cheating on her.
- Created by
- Sally Wainwright

Schoolteacher Helen Barker learns that her husband Tony has been cheating on her.
1 season · 6 episodes
Episode One
Feb 1, 200760 min
At her 20th wedding anniversary, Helen Barker discovers that her headmaster neighbour Jeremy, married to severe G.P. Harriet, is in love with her. Her younger brother Marcus, married to Imelda, suspects he has gay tendencies and her randy t
Episode Two
Feb 8, 200760 min
Helen throws Tony out and he moves in with Nicole, becoming her glorified babysitter. Bizarrely, Helen is joined in her house by Felix Nash, a handsome young screen actor over whom she fantasises and who has been mysteriously whisked halfwa
Episode Three
Feb 15, 200760 min
Whilst Imelda has second thoughts and chickens out of her date with Short, Marcus gets down to it in the stationery cupboard with colleague Andrew. Helen resists Jeremy's advances to cook a romantic meal for an increasingly bemused and frus
Episode Four
Feb 22, 200760 min
Tony is having a rotten time playing babysitter whilst Nicole goes on holiday and tries to write a sitcom. He receives no sympathy from Helen, who is also tiring of Felix and is more accommodating than usual with Jeremy. Depressed again, Jo
Episode Five
Mar 1, 200760 min
Tony has the idea for a sitcom based on his family's current experiences whilst Jeremy, on the arrival home of his teenage son, has a mid-life crisis to Harriet's horror, throwing up his job and buying a motor-bike and leathers. Imelda want
Episode Six
Mar 8, 200760 min
Tony gets a black eye when the local husbands assume he is the local stud and not Tim, who flees via train. Tony's sitcom is a success and Helen, now proud of him in view of Nicole's news, has him back when Felix disappears as suddenly as h