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Handle with prayer. The tangled life of a sometimes less than virtuous vicar.

Handle with prayer. The tangled life of a sometimes less than virtuous vicar. Award-winning comedy with Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman.

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Tom Hollander

Olivia Colman

Steve Evets

Miles Jupp

Lucy Liemann

Simon McBurney

Ellen Thomas

Alexander Armstrong

Lu Corfield

Ben Willbond

Ricky Champ

Matthew Fenton

Ravin J Ganatra

Hermione Gulliford

Peter Cattaneo

Kenton Allen

Hannah Pescod

James Wood

Rev.: Series 1: Episode 1

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Episode 1

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Rev Adam Smallbone is surprised to find that his congregation has quadrupled overnight.

Sitcom with Tom Hollander as a vicar running an inner-city church. Reverend Smallbone is elated when his dwindling congregation quadruples overnight, but it's down to a rumour.

Meet the Rev Adam Smallbone. He is a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the inner-city world of St Saviour's in East London. It is a world he has little experience of. And it shows.

It is an incredibly difficult job being a good, modern, city vicar. And, equally, it is a very hard job being married to one. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife.

Every day throws up a moral conflict. All are welcome at St Saviour's and Adam can't turn any of them away - even if they're clearly lying or just very annoying.

In this first episode, Reverend Adam is feeling the pressure of trying to fill a rundown London church - that is, until his congregation quadruples overnight. But the sudden influx of worshippers isn't down to word getting out about his wonderful sermons; there's a rumour going round that the local church school is about to get a great Ofsted report. Faced with a bunch of hypocritical parents desperately vying for his attention in the hope he'll recommend their child, Adam is tempted to trade a school place for the expensive restoration of a broken stained-glass window.

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The Reverend Adam Smallbone tries to adjust to life as a modern city vicar

Sitcom about a vicar running a modern inner-city church, with a reluctant wife and a depleted, motley congregation

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