Series synopsis
The Job Lot is a British comedy television series that premiered on ITV2 on April 29, 2013. It ended on November 10, 2015. It was created by Stuart Lane, Ian Jarvis, Claire Downes. It stars Sarah Hadland, Russell Tovey, Angela Curran and Jo Enright.
The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.
Premise
The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.
Premise: Work. It's a four letter word.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Sarah Hadland as Trish Collingwood
- Russell Tovey as Karl Lyndhurst
- Angela Curran as Janette Hodgkins
- Jo Enright as Angela Bromford
- Martin Marquez as Paul Franks
- Tony Maudsley as Graham Pleck
- Laura Aikman as Natalie Mason
- Tamla Kari as Danielle Fisher
Guest cast
- Sophie McShera as Bryony West
- Adeel Akhtar as George Dhot
- Nick Mohammed as Ash
- Dylan Edwards as Tom Burns
- Mark Bagnall as Darren Leigh
- Nigel Boyle as Adam Rogers
- Samuel Anderson as Craig Allen
- Navin Chowdhry as Sunil Mitesh
- Emma Rigby as Chloe Granger
- Tomi May as Dean Price
- Sean Pertwee as Sgt Steve Fox
- Martin Trenaman as Douglas Knox
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 18 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 6 | April 29, 2013 | June 10, 2013 |
| Season 2 | 6 | September 23, 2014 | October 29, 2014 |
| Season 3 | 6 | October 6, 2015 | November 10, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Under Pressure Brownall House Job Centre manager Trish struggles to keep things running smoothly. She has a world-of-work seminar to run, the temp is late, and difficult employee Angela returns, fresh from winning a tribunal. Karl is the only staff Trish can rely on, but now even he's reached the end of his tether. |
April 29, 2013 |
| 2 |
Army Trish attempts to boost Brownall Job Centre’s figures by calling in the army. Sergeant Steve Fox finds himself on the receiving end of a very different kind of interest though. George goes undercover to try and trap a man who’s signing on and working as a decorator, but things don’t quite go to plan. |
May 6, 2013 |
| 3 |
Busy Following the sudden closure of a local factory, the job centre is inundated with newly unemployed jobseekers. With everyone working flat out, Trish is forced to help but she struggles with the computer and reveals a shocking, somewhat disturbing, secret. |
May 13, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 It's the morning after Trish's big divorce party, and she's half-clothed in Karl's flat. Unable to remember a thing, Karl is horrified to see that the new deputy manager at work is a beautiful woman his own age, and swiftly plans his departure from the job centre. |
September 24, 2014 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 The temperature rises at Brownall when a local hot-tub manufacturer wants to recruit a new sales team - and Trish and Karl each tell a lie which spirals out of control. |
October 1, 2014 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Trish and her deputy manager Natalie stage a youth unemployment initiative to impress the local MP, but things don't go according to plan. |
October 8, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Pregnant Karl finds a pregnancy test in Natalie's drawer, assumes that she's pregnant and sets about proving what a great father he can be, but his over-the-top efforts have the opposite effect, especially since the test is not Natalie's but is in fact Trish's. Meanwhile, Angela brings her very pregnant cat into work. |
October 6, 2015 |
| 2 |
Flatmate Trish decides that she wants to have a baby via sperm donation and needs someone she knows rather than a random donor. Meanwhile, Natalie pretends she is deep in debt in order to avoid moving in with Karl, but her lie looks like it could backfire when Karl considers selling his swimmers to Trish to help her out! |
October 13, 2015 |
| 3 |
Caravan Karl tries to prove to Natalie he can be more dynamic, but his tough-guy experiment backfires when a desperate jobseeker takes Trish hostage. |
October 20, 2015 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | ITV2 |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 29, 2013 |
| Last aired | November 10, 2015 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Wednesday at 22:00:00 |