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This week on Streamline, we dive into season two of Daddy Issues, the BBC comedy that sees hapless father-daughter duo Gemma (Aimee Lou Wood) and Malcolm (David Morrissey) welcome the newest addition to their chaotic family.We speak to creator Danielle Ward and star Taj Atwal about the show’s unflinching take on modern parenthood, the loneliness that often shadows new motherhood, and why the messy female friendships at the heart of the show feel so true to life.Plus, we unpack Wicked: For Good and the gloriously unhinged press tour proving, once again, that movie marketing can become as big a story as the film itself.

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00:00This is Streamline, your weekly guide to what's actually worth watching across TV, film, and everything in between.

00:06If you're looking for something funny and heartwarming to get into this week, BBC comedy Daddy Issues is back for season two.

00:12You cannot send a flaccid c**t shot, okay? This looks like a baby rat that's fallen asleep on a scourer.

00:18To recap, the show follows 24-year-old Gemma.

00:21All hail the queen, Amy Lou Wood, who gets pregnant after a one-night stand in an airplane toilet.

00:26As far as opening scenes go, this one gives sex education a run for its money.

00:29So just don't watch it with your parents.

00:32Pregnant and friendless, Gemma has no choice but to have her hapless but well-meaning dad move into her flat with her.

00:38Season two picks up after Gemma's given birth, so she's trying to navigate the trials, tribulations, and leaky boobs of motherhood.

00:45Amy Lou Wood is the beating heart of this series.

00:48Most of us fell in love with her in sex education, white lotus, or that emoji she dropped under Sydney Sweeney's GQ interview.

00:55She's often playing the goofy, unfiltered comic relief.

00:58So seeing that familiar face weighed down by the exhaustion of motherhood hits surprisingly hard.

01:04Amy Lou Wood is just such a shining star in this show.

01:07Did you always have her in mind for Gemma?

01:10I know people always say this, but there's literally no one else in mind.

01:13When I first sent a pitch about this girl who gets pregnant and moves in with her dad, and they said,

01:18I want Amy Lou Wood to part.

01:20No one else.

01:21There's a lot of me in the origins of Gemma.

01:24But then Amy, as an actor, takes the character somewhere else.

01:28There's a tenderness to Gemma that isn't in me and probably isn't in my writing.

01:32I think she finds something else in between the lines that I have put there, and I think that is where the magic happens.

01:37And I like it before the police turn up.

01:39Yeah, I'm sorry.

01:40I can't do this without you, Dad.

01:42Amy is joined by a very funny ensemble cast, including Sharon Rooney from My Mad Fat Diary,

01:47David Flynn from The Inbetweeners, and Taj Atwell,

01:51who I spoke to about playing Gemma's chaotic best mate, Cherry.

01:54I feel like me and all my mates are really chaotic, so I was like, we're all like this.

01:58It was nice because we get to play off each other.

02:01We love what each other brings to the table as actresses, to our characters, and it's so freeing.

02:08Like, it's such a freeing process on this shoot.

02:10It's one of our favorite, we all say it's one of our favorite shoots because there's just so much freedom to explore your character,

02:15freedom to create something else, to improvise, to add little flourishes in to really own your character,

02:20and they really encourage us to own our character.

02:22Ask us, you know, what do you think?

02:24I feel like she kind of knows who she is, which I did not.

02:28At 25, you know, even though she's kind of navigating all these massive things,

02:34she's still more put together than I am now.

02:36You'll have me for a much younger woman.

02:38How much younger?

02:40She's 16.

02:41Playing Gemma's clueless dad turned flatmate is David Morrissey, or the governor without his eyepatch.

02:46Morrissey is a bona fide serious actor, and I'll admit, I was skeptical of his comedy chops at first,

02:51but he fully commits to the man-child bit, which is fun to watch.

02:55I'm going to be a granddad. These are happy tears.

02:59They are not happy tears.

03:00The show allows breathing space for some really touching moments between the two of them,

03:04which I think makes the comedic moments even more earned.

03:07My own Brassic for four years, and one of the things that I really found tapping into those

03:13more emotional moments is a really good thing, and I wouldn't have done it.

03:18If I had worked on Brassic, I don't think that's how I'd have written Daddy Issues.

03:20It would have been a slightly more peep show-y, and I love, that's no disrespect to Peep Show,

03:25it's my favorite of a sitcom, or something like Arrested Development,

03:27where it's a little bit arch, and everything, you know, you don't get to show those real emotions

03:32because everybody's so guarded, and I love those shows so much.

03:35But I think Brassic just gave me the ability to have moments of truth,

03:40and think you don't have to put a joke in it.

03:42You can have a bit where characters talk to each other, and you don't have to put a joke,

03:46and it's still a bit.

03:47He's not even visited yet, and you're going to ask Dad to smuggle a phone

03:50into prison up his a** canal?

03:52Yeah, and what if he enjoyed it?

03:55What I love about this show is its brutally honest depiction of female friendships.

03:59So for me, it sits alongside shows like Fleabag, Broad City, and Girls,

04:04in its depiction of female friendship as gloriously messy and complicated,

04:08which I think is the version that most of us actually recognize.

04:11It's a very relatable portrayal of what female friendship is actually like.

04:15I'm so glad you brought it up, because it's not this twee kind of cutesy,

04:18it's really cutthroat, they tell each other how it is,

04:21but also still so grounded in so many other ways,

04:24in so many, you know, they still communicate,

04:27they still want to make a friendship,

04:28and they still navigate all of the highs and lows of that age,

04:31and it's exactly what I know my friendships to be like,

04:36and you're still an anchor to each other.

04:39And the bond that you have, it's so easy and so natural.

04:43How did you build that bond off screen?

04:46Well, we're all like that on set anyway.

04:47I think that's why it comes across so well,

04:49because we are all like that together anyway.

04:52We're direct, we're ridiculous, we're silly,

04:56we're very comfortable being exactly who we want to be.

05:00It's then so easy to do your scenes off the back of that.

05:03Are you my appendix?

05:05Because I have no idea what you do,

05:06but I feel like I should take you out.

05:08Uh, yeah.

05:09In true demure British sitcom style,

05:12it's six short half-hour episodes per season.

05:15Super bingeable without loads of homework.

05:17In film news,

05:18aka the only news anyone's actually going to be talking about this weekend,

05:22Wicked For Good is out in cinemas,

05:24and everyone is appropriately losing their sh...

05:27My Local Cinema has 27 showings of this on Friday alone,

05:36who said cinema was dead.

05:38Clearly not the theatre kids who are finally enjoying their day in the sun.

05:41This film picks up where the last one left off,

05:43and follows Elphaba and Glinda as they embrace their new identities

05:46as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

05:49You probably couldn't get a more different version of female friendship to this if you tried.

05:53The latest film turns the stage musical's two-hour, 45-minute runtime

05:57into two films, totalling five hours.

06:00Yes, five.

06:01The reviews are mixed, to say the least,

06:04and it would be hard to live up to the magic of the first film.

06:06I mean, all the bangers are in the first act anyway.

06:08But if you're here for the sheer, unbridled chaos of the press tour,

06:12it's giving the first one a run for its money.

06:14The press tour for Wicked Part 1 didn't just promote the film,

06:18it became a cultural phenomenon in its own right.

06:21Not to go too meta, but there's actually a reference to holding space

06:24in Daddy A Shoe Season 2.

06:26People are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that.

06:31I didn't know that that was happening.

06:32I didn't know that was happening.

06:34I mean, I am in queer media.

06:36And I'm like, what the f***?

06:38This shows us that press and marketing are as big a part of the story as the film itself.

06:43That's what I wanted.

06:45Take Barbie, for instance.

06:46The marketing campaign reportedly cost $150 million.

06:50$5 million more than the production budget.

06:53The film required so much pink paint that it led to a global supply shortage.

06:58So cool.

06:58So if you're holding space for Cynthia protecting Ariana like she's the crown jewels,

07:02or Jonathan basking in his sexiest man alive win,

07:05the frenzy is sure to get bums in seats.

07:08I mean, we've all seen what bad marketing can do.

07:10Thanks for watching.

07:11We'll be back with another set of Streamline recommendations next week.

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