Trevor's World of Sport

Trevor's World of Sport
Genre	Sitcom
Running time	30 mins
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Syndicates	BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring	Neil Pearson; Paul Reynolds; Rosalind Ayres; Abdul Salis; Cosima Shaw; Claire Skinner
Written by	Andy Hamilton
Original release	20 August 2004 –; 22 February 2007
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	18
Website	Radio 4 Extra episode guide

*Trevor's World of Sport*
Trevor's World of Sport
	Cast of Trevor's World of Sport
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Andy Hamilton
Directed by	Andy Hamilton
Starring	Neil Pearson; Paul Reynolds; Rosalind Ayres; Abdul Salis; Cosima Shaw; Claire Skinner
Composer	Matthew Scott
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producers	Denise O'Donoghue; Jimmy Mulville
Producer	Sue Howells
Running time	30 mins
Production company	Hat Trick Productions
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	15 August –; 6 October 2003

Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. One series of the television series was made, followed by three series which were aired on BBC Radio 4, as a continuation of the television series.

Cast

Neil Pearson as Trevor Heslop
Paul Reynolds as Sammy Dobbs
Rosalind Ayres as Theresa
Abdul Salis as Barry
Cosima Shaw as Heidrun
Michael Fenton Stevens as Ralph Renton
Claire Skinner as Meryl

Plot

The series is set in the world of TS Sports – a sports public relations firm, run by Trevor Heslop and his partner, the lascivious Sammy Dobbs (Paul Reynolds). Trevor is portrayed as an essentially decent, honest man in the corrupt money-obsessed industry of sporting celebrity, who is still deeply in love with his estranged wife Meryl (Claire Skinner). The other TS Sports office staff are the cool German receptionist Heidrun (Cosima Shaw), whose lesbianism obsesses Sammy; the young black trainee Barry (Abdul Salis); and strongly Christian office manager Theresa (Rosalind Ayres).

Andy Hamilton also appears in a minor role within the show, and several actors who have worked in his other comedy shows for television and radio appear. Neil Pearson was in Hamilton's Drop the Dead Donkey, as (briefly) was Michael Fenton Stevens who plays TS Sports' only regular client, fading celebrity Ralph Renton.

Episodes

The television series

Episode	Original broadcast date
1	15 August 2003
2	22 August 2003
3	29 August 2003
4	15 September 2003 (postponed from 5 September)
5	22 September 2003 (postponed from 12 September)
6	29 September 2003
7	6 October 2003

The radio series

Series 1

Episode	Episode title	Original broadcast date
1	Jason	20 August 2004
2	Ethics	27 August 2004
3	Samantha	3 September 2004
4	Antonia	10 September 2004
5	Divorce	17 September 2004
6	Quiz	24 September 2004

Series 2

Episode	Episode title	Original broadcast date
1	Work Experience	29 November 2005
2	Dog	6 December 2005
3	Stalker	13 December 2005
4	Trust	20 December 2005
5	Marathon	27 December 2005
6	French	3 January 2006

Series 3

Episode	Original broadcast date
1	18 January 2007
2	25 January 2007
3	1 February 2007
4	8 February 2007
5	15 February 2007
6	22 February 2007

Television Rescheduling

Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers, dropping to 2.9 million for the second and third episodes. The subsequent episodes were rescheduled from Friday evenings (just after the 9:00pm watershed) to Monday nights (after the 10:00pm news), despite the Radio Times issues having already been published listing the originally scheduled transmission dates. Hamilton went public with his displeasure over the show's scheduling and vowed never to work for BBC1 again, though he has since changed his mind.^[1] A radio version was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, with subsequent series in 2005 and 2007.

DVD release

The complete television series was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK on 6 May 2013.

References

^ Hamilton said in February 2009 that since those who made the decisions have now moved on, "it would have been daft to nurse that grievance for ever". I did it my way: Andy Hamilton, BBC Radio 7, 09:00 21 February 2009.

External links

[1] Hamilton said in February 2009 that since those who made the decisions have now moved on, "it would have been daft to nurse that grievance for ever". I did it my way: Andy Hamilton, BBC Radio 7, 09:00 21 February 2009.

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