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Births, Deaths and Marriages

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Sitcom set in a local authority register office, written by and starring David Schneider

Births, Deaths and Marriages: Series 2

David Schneider

Sarah Hadland

Sandy McDade

Russell Tovey

Sally Bretton

Simon Greenall

Grainne Keenan

Simon Jacobs

Births, Deaths and Marriages: Series 2: Episode 6: Team Bonding

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Episode 6: Team Bonding

Team Bonding

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The office reluctantly takes part in a bonding exercise in the grounds of a country house.

The office bonding exercise and a celebrity wedding at a country house prove a challenge for Malcolm Fox. Stars David Schneider. From August 2013.

Births, Deaths and Marriages is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life.

Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? He's married thousands of women.

Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of austerity.

There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the only parent in the office, is a mother to them all.

In the final episode of the series, the office is reluctantly taking part in a team bonding exercise in the grounds of a country house. Lorna is doing the celebrity wedding of the Honourable Sebastian Foster at the same venue but Sebastian wants to have a hymn - which Malcolm says is strictly not allowed in a civil ceremony. 

Producer: Simon Jacobs
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