Friday Night Dinner spin-off axed after just one series
A FRIDAY Night Dinner spin-off has been axed after just one series.
An Amazon free streaming service announced it will no longer serve up extra helpings of the show Dinner With The Parents.
The series focuses on a chaotic weekly Langar family get-together that results in entertaining exchanges.
Two twenty-something brothers, David (played by Henry Hall) and Gregg (played by Daniel Thrasher) visit their parents’ house for dinner every week.
Michaela Watkins and Dan Bakkedahl play Harvey and Jane, their parents, and Carol Kane plays Nana Rose.
The show was launched on Amazon Freevee, a free ad-supported demand streaming service.
The first series aired this April but received mixed reviews, leading to its cancellation this month.
The comedy was a reboot of the long-running British comedy Friday Night Dinner, which starred Tasmin Greig, Paul Ritter, Tom Rosenthal, Simon Bird, and Mark Heap.
It was a massive hit on Channel 4, running for nine years from 2011 to 2020 and focussing on the Goodman family.
The popular series gave people an insight into a Jewish middle-class family in North London.
Robert Popper wrote the original show, which received two BAFTA nominations.
What is unique about both series is that they used a single camera setup.
Although the programme only got one run, it had more mileage than NBC’s remake by The Office‘s Greg Daniels, which was piloted in 2012.
Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub played the parents in that one which didn’t make it off the ground.
Then, CBS made another successful attempt to bring it to the screen.
However, the third attempt lasted less than a year, despite the popular British drama lasting almost a decade.