Funny Peculiar

Trevor Tinsley is a small-town grocer with a devoted wife and new baby – but his desire to taste the forbidden fruit of free love leads him astray and into the welcoming arms of his neighbour’s wife. A host of comic characters are revealed as Trevor’s hilarious misadventures lead him into conflict with his strait-laced community and provoke his narrow-minded wife into a surprising reaction of her own! Read more …

TV favourites including Craig Gazey, winner of National Television Best Newcomer award and British Soap Best Comedy Performer award for his portrayal of Coronation Street’s popular innocent Graeme Proctor; Emmerdale’s Suzanne Shaw, Champion of ITV’s Dancing on Ice, West End star of Chicago and Joseph and Pop sensation; Gemma Bissix, two-time British Soap award-winner for her role in Hollyoaks; Vicky Entwistle, best known as the feisty Janice Battersby in Coronation Street, and Heartbeat’s Steven Blakeley come together in this award-winning comedy classic.

The critical consensus

Unfortunately Funny Peculiar feels reanimated rather than brought back to life.

(*) (*) (*) James T Harding, The Scotsman, 28/02/2012

This Funny Peculiar emerges as a show well worth seeing; particularly for connoisseurs of British popular culture, and the series of strange revolutions and backlashes which have shaken and stirred it, in the last half century.

(*) (*) Joyce McMillan, 01/03/2012