The Job Lot

The Job Lot

Work. It's a four letter word.

Ended First aired 29/Apr/2013 United Kingdom English 3 season(s) 18 episode(s)
Comedy
The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.
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Season 3 · Series 3
6 episode(s) · Air date: 06/Oct/2015
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S3E6
Secret
Air date: 10/Nov/2015 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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It is Brownall's 25th birthday and former boss of the centre Maggie Higgins is invited to lead the celebrations. Unfortunately, Maggie comes armed with some devastating information about Angela, who will stop at nothing to keep her quiet. Meanwhile, Trish's holiday romance Raul visits from Spain with marriage on his mind.

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It is Brownall's 25th birthday and former boss of the centre Maggie Higgins is invited to lead the celebrations. Unfortunately, Maggie comes armed with some devastating information about Angela, who will stop at nothing to keep her quiet. Meanwhile, Trish's holiday romance Raul visits from Spain with marriage on his mind.

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S3E5
Tour
Air date: 03/Nov/2015 · Time: 22:30 · Runtime: 22 min
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Brownall tops the leader board for getting people off benefits at the monthly managers' meeting. Trish is more interested in Greg, a manager from the nearby Nechells Job Centre branch. Angela and Natalie go on tour attending a work conference in London with Angela giving a talk to fellow colleagues.

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Brownall tops the leader board for getting people off benefits at the monthly managers' meeting. Trish is more interested in Greg, a manager from the nearby Nechells Job Centre branch. Angela and Natalie go on tour attending a work conference in London with Angela giving a talk to fellow colleagues.

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S3E4
Strike
Air date: 27/Oct/2015 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 21 min
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Relations between management and the workforce break down over health and safety and plans for the Christmas party. Goaded by Angela, Karl becomes ringleader and calls a strike.

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Relations between management and the workforce break down over health and safety and plans for the Christmas party. Goaded by Angela, Karl becomes ringleader and calls a strike.

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S3E3
Caravan
Air date: 20/Oct/2015 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Karl tries to prove to Natalie he can be more dynamic, but his tough-guy experiment backfires when a desperate jobseeker takes Trish hostage.

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Karl tries to prove to Natalie he can be more dynamic, but his tough-guy experiment backfires when a desperate jobseeker takes Trish hostage.

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Flatmate
Air date: 13/Oct/2015 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Trish decides that she wants to have a baby via sperm donation and needs someone she knows rather than a random donor. Meanwhile, Natalie pretends she is deep in debt in order to avoid moving in with Karl, but her lie looks like it could backfire when Karl considers selling his swimmers to Trish to help her out!

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Trish decides that she wants to have a baby via sperm donation and needs someone she knows rather than a random donor. Meanwhile, Natalie pretends she is deep in debt in order to avoid moving in with Karl, but her lie looks like it could backfire when Karl considers selling his swimmers to Trish to help her out!

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Pregnant
Air date: 06/Oct/2015 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Karl finds a pregnancy test in Natalie's drawer, assumes that she's pregnant and sets about proving what a great father he can be, but his over-the-top efforts have the opposite effect, especially since the test is not Natalie's but is in fact Trish's. Meanwhile, Angela brings her very pregnant cat into work.

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Karl finds a pregnancy test in Natalie's drawer, assumes that she's pregnant and sets about proving what a great father he can be, but his over-the-top efforts have the opposite effect, especially since the test is not Natalie's but is in fact Trish's. Meanwhile, Angela brings her very pregnant cat into work.

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Season 2 · Series 2
6 episode(s) · Air date: 23/Sep/2014
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Episode 6
Air date: 29/Oct/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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A Saturday health and wellbeing workshop with a neighbouring branch makes Karl much more relaxed than he wants to be, and presents Natalie with a big decision.

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A Saturday health and wellbeing workshop with a neighbouring branch makes Karl much more relaxed than he wants to be, and presents Natalie with a big decision.

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Episode 5
Air date: 22/Oct/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Security guards Janette and Paul make unlikely heroes when Trish loses her mobile phone and Natalie gets in big trouble with a jobseeker.

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Security guards Janette and Paul make unlikely heroes when Trish loses her mobile phone and Natalie gets in big trouble with a jobseeker.

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Episode 4
Air date: 15/Oct/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Under pressure to hit targets, Karl and George are on an ill-fated stakeout, whilst Natalie resorts to teaching Bryony dubious new work skills.

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Under pressure to hit targets, Karl and George are on an ill-fated stakeout, whilst Natalie resorts to teaching Bryony dubious new work skills.

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Episode 3
Air date: 08/Oct/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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Trish and her deputy manager Natalie stage a youth unemployment initiative to impress the local MP, but things don't go according to plan.

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Trish and her deputy manager Natalie stage a youth unemployment initiative to impress the local MP, but things don't go according to plan.

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Episode 2
Air date: 01/Oct/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 30 min
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The temperature rises at Brownall when a local hot-tub manufacturer wants to recruit a new sales team - and Trish and Karl each tell a lie which spirals out of control.

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The temperature rises at Brownall when a local hot-tub manufacturer wants to recruit a new sales team - and Trish and Karl each tell a lie which spirals out of control.

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S2E1
Episode 1
Air date: 24/Sep/2014 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 23 min
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It's the morning after Trish's big divorce party, and she's half-clothed in Karl's flat. Unable to remember a thing, Karl is horrified to see that the new deputy manager at work is a beautiful woman his own age, and swiftly plans his departure from the job centre.

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It's the morning after Trish's big divorce party, and she's half-clothed in Karl's flat. Unable to remember a thing, Karl is horrified to see that the new deputy manager at work is a beautiful woman his own age, and swiftly plans his departure from the job centre.

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Season 1 · Series 1
6 episode(s) · Air date: 29/Apr/2013
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S1E6
Birthday
Air date: 10/Jun/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Trish gets a life-changing surprise on her birthday - or so she thinks. Needing time to think it through, she promotes Karl to acting manager, but Karl's fears that nobody will listen to him prove correct. With Trish out of the way, Paul takes the chance to expand his carpet-fitting business, while Danielle just stops working altogether. Karl is totally out of his depth and things get a whole lot worse when a jobseeker decides to stage a protest.

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Trish gets a life-changing surprise on her birthday - or so she thinks. Needing time to think it through, she promotes Karl to acting manager, but Karl's fears that nobody will listen to him prove correct. With Trish out of the way, Paul takes the chance to expand his carpet-fitting business, while Danielle just stops working altogether. Karl is totally out of his depth and things get a whole lot worse when a jobseeker decides to stage a protest.

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Decisions, Decisions
Air date: 03/Jun/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Trish is conducting staff appraisals and Danielle is feeling the pressure, while Angela is in an unusually good mood. When the reason for her cheerfulness comes to light, George suspects that she is not telling the whole truth and seeks revenge. Karl arrives for work with a spring in his step - he has finally got a girlfriend. Then he discovers that she signs on at the job centre - where relationships between staff and jobseekers are against the rules.

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Trish is conducting staff appraisals and Danielle is feeling the pressure, while Angela is in an unusually good mood. When the reason for her cheerfulness comes to light, George suspects that she is not telling the whole truth and seeks revenge. Karl arrives for work with a spring in his step - he has finally got a girlfriend. Then he discovers that she signs on at the job centre - where relationships between staff and jobseekers are against the rules.

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S1E4
Report
Air date: 20/May/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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The job centre is due to be inspected, and Trish is on the lookout for the mystery shopper - or secret jobseeker - who is going to file a report. Nobody else seems to care, apart from security guard Janette who harbours an irrational hatred of the Great Barr branch and is determined to beat them in the job centre league table. Karl is more interested in working with George - they are going to interrogate a pair of big-time benefit cheats together, but they both want to be the bad cop.

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The job centre is due to be inspected, and Trish is on the lookout for the mystery shopper - or secret jobseeker - who is going to file a report. Nobody else seems to care, apart from security guard Janette who harbours an irrational hatred of the Great Barr branch and is determined to beat them in the job centre league table. Karl is more interested in working with George - they are going to interrogate a pair of big-time benefit cheats together, but they both want to be the bad cop.

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S1E3
Busy
Air date: 13/May/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Following the sudden closure of a local factory, the job centre is inundated with newly unemployed jobseekers. With everyone working flat out, Trish is forced to help but she struggles with the computer and reveals a shocking, somewhat disturbing, secret.

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Following the sudden closure of a local factory, the job centre is inundated with newly unemployed jobseekers. With everyone working flat out, Trish is forced to help but she struggles with the computer and reveals a shocking, somewhat disturbing, secret.

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Army
Air date: 06/May/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 22 min
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Trish attempts to boost Brownall Job Centre’s figures by calling in the army. Sergeant Steve Fox finds himself on the receiving end of a very different kind of interest though. George goes undercover to try and trap a man who’s signing on and working as a decorator, but things don’t quite go to plan.

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Trish attempts to boost Brownall Job Centre’s figures by calling in the army. Sergeant Steve Fox finds himself on the receiving end of a very different kind of interest though. George goes undercover to try and trap a man who’s signing on and working as a decorator, but things don’t quite go to plan.

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Under Pressure
Air date: 29/Apr/2013 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 24 min
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Brownall House Job Centre manager Trish struggles to keep things running smoothly. She has a world-of-work seminar to run, the temp is late, and difficult employee Angela returns, fresh from winning a tribunal. Karl is the only staff Trish can rely on, but now even he's reached the end of his tether.

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Brownall House Job Centre manager Trish struggles to keep things running smoothly. She has a world-of-work seminar to run, the temp is late, and difficult employee Angela returns, fresh from winning a tribunal. Karl is the only staff Trish can rely on, but now even he's reached the end of his tether.

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Sarah Hadland
Sarah Hadland
Trish Collingwood
Russell Tovey
Russell Tovey
Karl Lyndhurst
Angela Curran
Angela Curran
Janette Hodgkins
Jo Enright
Jo Enright
Angela Bromford
Martin Marquez
Martin Marquez
Paul Franks
Tony Maudsley
Tony Maudsley
Graham Pleck
Laura Aikman
Laura Aikman
Natalie Mason
Tamla Kari
Tamla Kari
Danielle Fisher
Sophie McShera
Sophie McShera
Bryony West
Adeel Akhtar
Adeel Akhtar
George Dhot
Nick Mohammed
Nick Mohammed
Ash
Dylan Edwards
Dylan Edwards
Tom Burns
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Mark Bagnall
Darren Leigh
Nigel Boyle
Nigel Boyle
Adam Rogers
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson
Craig Allen
Navin Chowdhry
Navin Chowdhry
Sunil Mitesh
Emma Rigby
Emma Rigby
Chloe Granger
Tomi May
Tomi May
Dean Price

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Martin Dennis
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Richard Laxton
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Benjamin Rosenberg
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Claire Downes
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Ian Jarvis
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Rachael New
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Stuart Lane
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Tom Parry
Tom Parry
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