| Love Soup | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy drama |
| Written by | David Renwick |
| Starring | Tamsin Greig Sheridan Smith Montserrat Lombard Owen Brenman Michael Landes (series 1) Trudie Styler (series 1) Mark Heap (series 2) Amelia Curtis (series 2) |
| Opening theme | "Alley Boogie" by Georgia White |
| Ending theme | Reprise |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | David Renwick Jon Plowman |
| Producer | Verity Lambert |
| Running time | 60 min. (series 1) 30 min. (series 2) |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 27 September 2005 – 17 May 2008 |
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Love Soup is a British television comedy drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery (a role written especially for her) and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond (series 1 only). The series is written by David Renwick, directed by Sandy Johnson and Christine Gernon and was produced by Verity Lambert. This was the last programme that Lambert produced before she died. The programme was initially a critical success although its audience figures were steady rather than spectacular, netting an average of five million viewers an episode. Renwick and his former scriptwriting partner Andrew Marshall have cameo appearances in one episode as members of a television sitcom scriptwriting team.
The second series started on 1 March 2008 and finished on 17 May 2008. This series contained changes from the first, including a switch from six 60-minute episodes, to 12 episodes of 30 minutes.[1]
The theme tune to Love Soup is "Alley Boogie" by jazz singer Georgia White.
The first series was released on DVD Region 2 on 3 December 2007. The second series (and a boxset containing both series) was released on 10 May 2008.