Girls On Top

Girls On Top is a British television sitcom which ran on ITV from 1985 to 1986.. It was conceived by and starred comedic duo French & Saunders - in their first high-profile writing project for television - and despite a very low budget and poor critical reception received extremely high ratings. It was made for the ITV network by Central. The show focused around four female flatmates and their landlady. The characters were broadly painted stereot... more

Girls On Top is a British television sitcom which ran on ITV from 1985 to 1986.. It was conceived by and starred comedic duo French & Saunders - in their first high-profile writing project for television - and despite a very low budget and poor critical reception received extremely high ratings. It was made for the ITV network by Central. The show focused around four female flatmates and their landlady. The characters were broadly painted stereotypes with very little depth and the comedy focused entirely around the conflicts arising from their personalities. In many ways the show can be seen as an attempt at creating an all-female version of the alternative sitcom The Young Ones, two series of which had appeared in 1982 and 1984. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders had both made cameo appearances in this earlier show and, like most of its stars, were members of The Comic Strip group. Saunders is also married to Adrian Edmondson, one of the "Young Ones". Indeed, the characters of Amanda... less