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Hard to Tell

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Comedy telling a couple's love story through their conversations with friends and family

Comedy by Jonny Sweet that tells its central love story through the conversations the couple has with family and friends

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Hard to Tell: Series 1

Jonny Sweet

Simon Greenall

Alex Macqueen

Vicki Pepperdine

Sarah Solemani

Charlotte Ritchie

Katy Wix

Lucy Armitage

Hard to Tell: Series 1: Episode 1

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Drama: Relationships & Romance

Episode 1

Series 1

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A bike accident lands Tom Sheffield in A&E, just as he is about to go for a pizza.

A bike accident lands Tom Sheffield in A&E, just as he is about to go for a pizza. Stars Jonny Sweet. From October 2011.

Thanks to a bike accident that's landed him in A&E, Tom Sheffield is about to go for a pizza with Ellen, a woman with the most noble of foreheads and - it turns out - the most attentive of dads.

Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). He conjures up characters depicting every relationship from father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to long term partners and their dearly departed.

The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going Out's Katy Wix), and Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new girlfriend, Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's zealously protective father (Simon Greenall).

Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo appearances.

Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek.

Producer: Lucy Armitage
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