Waiting For God

[Strange Wings]

Currently there's running this serial at our local TV station. It contains the typically british black humour which is coming over with a lot of word joke and bracing funny acting characters, hilarious to watch.

The story takes place at an english retirement home called 'Bayview' showing the sufferings, lifes and loves(!) of the aged residents. The main two of them are Diana Trent (played by Stephanie Cole) and Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) who are spending most of their time to verbally (sometimes even physically) harass unloved people suchlike as the selfish director of Bayview, Harvey Bains, whose arrogant behaviour and money making attitude just is a pain in the neck to all residents.
Harvey on the other hand gets frequently embarrassed by the main caretaker Jane Edwards who deeply had fallen in love with him and thus is waiting all the time for a proper occasion to confess her passion to him.
Of course, Jane gets rejected by him everytime, but being a mentally slight underweighted woman, she never gets the picture and is trying all anew to gain his love. No need to say that she's also the target of Diana's and Tom's teasings.
Jane actually is a good minded woman, she just hates to hear Diana and Tom talking nasty things about Harvey (although most of their talkings about him are quite justified).

There's also frequently appearing Tom's luckless son Geoffrey, depicted as a total loser in life, who is married to his drug addicted nymphomaniac wife Marion whose attempts to find the weirdest occasions for flirting with the most different types of strangers is driving her poor hubby nuts most of the time. She even once made it to bewitch a pastor(!) who had fallen in disgrace since he babtised a newly born baby with the beautiful name 'Filthy Little Bastard Jones'.
As you might guess, Marion too happens to be blessed with plenty of derogative comments by Diana and Tom.

Diana surely is the more extreme one of these main two characters, her choice of words is just second to none when it comes down for dissing against human targets.
Tom on the other hand tends more to be the type of a day dreamer, always mind travelling at midday to visit such exotic lands as Burma, Thailand, Kenya etc., referring all the time to his former life as Ernest Hemingway or to other historical persons.

Here's a nice made fan site, containing plenty of sound files of some dialogues:
Waiting For God

I'm really considering if I should buy the soon to be released DVD of this serial, it definitely should be worth the money to spend.

[Big Astro Fan]

I've seen that show. Diana is a fiery woman. I love how she doesn't put up with anything she thinks anybody is doing wrong to the residents.

[Strange Wings]

Sorry about replying so late.

Yeah, definitely. Diana has a great attitude despite her ferocious words. I guess as a former photographer she just had seen too many miseries happening in the world which might have made her bitter towards her fellow men, but in her essence she has a good heart.

Another residents' character which I'm finding also to be pretty amusing is Basil Makepeace. Considering his age he's still very affected by females. Just listen to his talkings.

Here's a certain dialogue which is constantly appearing in the series:

Jane: "Oh, Harvey!"
Harvey: Jane!"
Jane: "Yes, Harvey?"
Harvey: "You're touching me!"
Jane: "Sorry, Harvey."