Gavin & Stacey is a British Comedy TV series that is a romcom and the show includes the long-distant relationship between Gavin (Mathew Horne) from Billericay in Essex, England and Stacey (Joanna Page) fromBarry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The writers of the programme is, actors James Corden and Ruth Jones, who also play the characters of Gavin and Stacey’s friends Smithy and Nessa in the programme. Other main characters are Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters.
The show was first produced by Baby Cow Productions for BBC Wales. It ran for of twenty episodes and was broadcast between 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010, consisting of three series and a Christmas special. At first the series was shown on digital-only channel BBC Three, but a gincrease of viewers meant that it was moved to BBC Two, and finally BBC One. The last episodes of the final series formed a significant part of the prime time BBC seasonal programming, and were broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year’s Day 2010.
The programme was acclaimed as a breakthrough show for BBC Three, as the most nominated show in the 2007 British Comedy Awards. It has won many awards, such as, the British Academy Television Awards Audience Award, and the British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Award, both in 2008.
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