Nighty Night

Nighty Night is an English sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis; it was broadcast on BBC Three before moving to BBC2. Notorious for its excessively dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) - who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic assistant Linda (Ruth Jones) - as she learns of her husband's terminal cancer diagnosis and uses it to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), a wheelc... more

Nighty Night is an English sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis; it was broadcast on BBC Three before moving to BBC2. Notorious for its excessively dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) - who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic assistant Linda (Ruth Jones) - as she learns of her husband's terminal cancer diagnosis and uses it to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don (Angus Deayton), a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with. The theme tune used in the beginning of both series and during the closing credits for the first is an excerpt from the spaghetti western My Name Is Nobody, composed by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. In June 2006 it was announced that Sex and the City creator Darren Star will write and be executive producer of a US version, which has been commissioned for a pilot script. Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, founders of... less