Sex 'n' Death

Sex 'n' Death
Airdate	December 14, 1999
Written by	Guy Jenkin
Directed by	Guy Jenkin
Network	BBC One
Style	75-minute comedy / drama
Company	Hat Trick Productions
Origin	UK

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Sex 'n' Death is a biting satire on the TV of "the very near future". Ben Black is the host of an over-the-top, tasteless, gross-out TV show centered on public humilation and, of course, titillation with sex and gore. As he keeps pushing the boundaries, his cruel on-screen persona blends into his dysfunctional personal life.

Cast: Paula Bacon (Stacey), Nicholas R. Bailey (Tony, The Great Fandango), Natasha Bell (Mandy), Katy Cavanagh (Ruby), Martin Clunes (Ben), Trevor Cooper (William), Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Shona), Caroline Goodall (Bella), Andy Hamilton (Ambulance-Man), Peter Heppelthwaite (Mac), Martin Jarvis (Neil Biddle), Ulrika Jonsson (Herself), Edmund Moriarty (Giles), Terry O'Neill (Warren Hatcher), Jane Peachey (Sophie), Kelly Reilly (Julie), Adam Searles (Davy), Julian Sims (Eric), Andy Smart (Alan), Jason Watkins (Mick Luger)

Quotes

• Bella: How do you get to sleep at night?
  Ben: A combination of drugs and masturbation.

• Ben (sleepless and listening to John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?"): God. You as well, you dead Scouse git?

• Bella: Shouldn't you be you on stage?
  Tony: My show's canceled. The first trick, some Americans had a heart attach. I've now killed three members of my audience.
  Bella: Well done.

• Bella: You've taken me to lunch, you've sent me six bunches of flowers, three baskets of food, and a pink china hippopotamus. Would I be correct in thinking that you want to sleep with me?

• Ben: You still a vegetarian?
  Sophie: Actually, I've become a fruitarian. We don't eat anything that's been uprooted.
  Ben: Eh?
  Sophie: Only foodstuffs that fall naturally off trees.
  Ben: Does that include concussed squirrels?

• Neil: You show this and I'll…I'll kill myself.
  Ben: Could you do it before the repeat? Would work wonders for our figures.