The Book Group

The Book Group

Who ever said reading was dull?

Ended First aired 12/Apr/2002 United Kingdom English 3 season(s) 13 episode(s)
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Clare, a neurotic American, moves to Glasgow and starts a book group to meet new, interesting people. But Kenny, Dirka, Rab, Fist and Janice are more interesting than she bargained for...
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Season 2 · Series 2
6 episode(s) · Air date: 24/Jan/2003
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The Glasgow book group is back. As the group struggle to get through Don Quixote, Clare is facing a formidable windmill of her own in the guise of older sister, Jean, who wants to move to Glasgow from Cincinnati.

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The Glasgow book group is back. As the group struggle to get through Don Quixote, Clare is facing a formidable windmill of her own in the guise of older sister, Jean, who wants to move to Glasgow from Cincinnati.

S2E6
A'Salaam Insh'Allah
Air date: 28/Feb/2003 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 27 min
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Jean has a party to celebrate her book deal. Kenny sings karaoke, Lachlan proposes to a reluctant Clare, and Janice gets very drunk and tells Rab she loves him.

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Jean has a party to celebrate her book deal. Kenny sings karaoke, Lachlan proposes to a reluctant Clare, and Janice gets very drunk and tells Rab she loves him.

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S2E5
Research
Air date: 21/Feb/2003 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 25 min
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The group reads a dirty book, The Sexual History of Catherine M. Fist is impressed, and decides to organise group sex with Dirka. Lars and Bart. Meanwhile, Jean is mistaken for a prostitute while conducting research for her new book, and Clare meets Kenny's underage girlfriend, Harriet.

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The group reads a dirty book, The Sexual History of Catherine M. Fist is impressed, and decides to organise group sex with Dirka. Lars and Bart. Meanwhile, Jean is mistaken for a prostitute while conducting research for her new book, and Clare meets Kenny's underage girlfriend, Harriet.

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S2E4
Drowning
Air date: 14/Feb/2003 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 25 min
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Lachlan is in a brace, due to his unfortunate fall into the empty pool. He makes a terrible invalid, and Clare is no good at changing bedpans.

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Lachlan is in a brace, due to his unfortunate fall into the empty pool. He makes a terrible invalid, and Clare is no good at changing bedpans.

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S2E3
You Must Change Your Life
Air date: 07/Feb/2003 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 25 min
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Kenny is doing a book tour and the women of the Outer Isles can't get enough of the author of 'Peaks in the Mist'. Meanwhile, Lachlan seems to be taking an awful lot of interest in Clare's sister.

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Kenny is doing a book tour and the women of the Outer Isles can't get enough of the author of 'Peaks in the Mist'. Meanwhile, Lachlan seems to be taking an awful lot of interest in Clare's sister.

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S2E1
Sueños
Air date: 24/Jan/2003 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 28 min
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Clare is living in apparent bliss with her artist boyfriend Lachlan, in a loft apartment with no furniture. But then her sister from hell comes to visit - and won't go away.

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Clare is living in apparent bliss with her artist boyfriend Lachlan, in a loft apartment with no furniture. But then her sister from hell comes to visit - and won't go away.

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Season 1 · Series 1
6 episode(s) · Air date: 12/Apr/2002
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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...

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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...

S1E6
A Little More Living
Air date: 17/May/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 24 min
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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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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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S1E5
Dark Alley
Air date: 10/May/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 24 min
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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.

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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.

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S1E4
Bedtime Stories
Air date: 03/May/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 24 min
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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.

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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.

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S1E3
Magical Realism
Air date: 26/Apr/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 23 min
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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.

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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.

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The Alchemist
Air date: 19/Apr/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 24 min
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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...

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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...

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On the Road
Air date: 12/Apr/2002 · Time: 21:30 · Runtime: 24 min
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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...

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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...

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Season 0 · Specials
1 episode(s) · Air date: 12/Dec/2002
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Anne Dudek
Anne Dudek
Clare Pettengill
Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomez
Janice McCann
Saskia Mulder
Saskia Mulder
Fist de Grooke
Karen Kilgariff
Karen Kilgariff
Jean Pettengill
Rory McCann
Rory McCann
Kenny McLeod
Derek Riddell
Derek Riddell
Rab
James Lance
James Lance
Lachlan Glendenning
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Bonnie Engstrom
Dirka
Sara Vickers
Sara Vickers
Babysitter

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Annie Griffin
Annie Griffin
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