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Friday Night Dinner: The Sitcom Where Nothing Happens, And It's Perfect

There's a particular sound that means home to me now, and it isn't a song or a doorbell. It's a man bellowing "shit on it" from somewhere upstairs while something goes quietly, hilariously wrong in aâ€¦

By @Bluchip ·Jun 18, 2026 Read post →

Synopsis

Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.

For the 10th anniversary of the show, a special 90-minute documentary episode aired on Channel 4 on 28 May 2021, entitled Friday Night Dinner: Ten Years and A Lovely Bit of Squirrel.

Friday Night Dinner depicts Shabbat dinner in the middle-class secular Jewish Goodman family, reflecting series creator Popper's own secular Jewish upbringing.

Although some episodes are centred around Jackie's eccentricities, she is usually the straight character who tries to run a normal household but is disrupted by the rest of the family.

After Wilson's death in series 5, Jim adopts a new dog, whom he names Milson in the first episode of series 6.