2012
TV-MA
30m

Summary Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on stage. View more details

2012
TV-MA
30m

Toast of London

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Matt Berry Shazad Latif Robert Bathurst Doon Mackichan

All cast & crew

8.2

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Genres : Comedy

Release date : Aug 19, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Production companies : Objective Productions

Summary Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on stage. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Aug 19, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Production companies : Objective Productions

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Harry Peacock and Matt Berry in Toast of London (2012)

Robert Bathurst, Harry Peacock, and Matt Berry in Toast of London (2012)

Tim Downie, Matt Berry, Chris Wilson, and Shazad Latif in Toast of London (2012)

Robert Bathurst in Toast of London (2012)

Robert Bathurst and Matt Berry in Toast of London (2012)

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Aug 19, 2012

The Unspeakable Play

Pilloried by the public after appearing in a controversial West End play, actor Steven Toast is recently-divorced and living with his friend Ed Howzer-Black and Ed's elderly mistress Goodhouse, an agoraphobic who has not left the house in two years for fear of a local flasher. He would move into the club where his shell-shocked ex-soldier brother Blair lives but Ray Purchase, a rival actor who caught Toast in bed with his wife, prevents it. Toast auditions to play a gay detective in 'Summer Time Murders' but has to audition in prison since the producer Cliff Promise has been sent down for racial chanting and the audition leads to a riot. After a long-winded voice-over session, Toast returns home to watch 'Crimewave' on TV and finds that Purchase, who also works as a police artist, has used his face in the Identikit picture of the flasher.

Episode 1 • Oct 19, 2013

Addictive Personality

Actor Steven Toast is informed by agent Jane Plough that Braz magazine have awarded him a Best Actor award. As a result he is interviewed by journalist Susan Random, to whom he is attracted, despite her being an alcoholic and extreme hoarder, whose house is full of junk. He is also pursued by Jemima Gina, who wears an electronic tag after being found guilty of trying to murder her boyfriend and who follows him to Susan's house. Both women discover that they like collecting beaks but the romance is killed for Steven. House-mate Ed is hosting a Nigerian girl-friend Kikini, though, as a result of deliberately botched plastic surgery by Ray Purchase, a rogue cosmetician and ex-actor rival to Toast, she looks just like Bruce Forsyth. Thus, when Steven learns that the award is actually for Worst Actor, who better to send along in his stead to collect it than 'Bruce' himself?

Episode 2 • Oct 26, 2013

Afternoon Tea

After yet another appalling review Steven rehearses for a new play but encounters a double obstacle. One is the presence of the vengeful Ray Purchase as co-star, the other the fact that the director, Acker Herron, is a lunatic who kills actors who will not obey him. Indeed Steven finds himself literally taking part in a life and death duel with Herron - which he is lucky to win. Afterwards he goes to a hotel to have 'afternoon tea' with an escort whom he has booked through an agency - only to discover that an old flame, TV producer Greta Cargo, is involved.

Episode 3 • Nov 02, 2013

Vanity Project

After his foul-mouthed ex-wife Ellen beats him up with a club on a mini-golf course Steven learns that she wants a hefty divorce settlement so it seems a gift when he is offered a part in the block-buster 'Prince Philip, Scoundrel Dog' directed by anti-Royalist rich Arab Mr Fasili. Jane thinks this is too controversial and suggests he does a laxative ad instead but Steven is not keen. However, when Mr Fasili dies before paying him Steven is all set to become the face of Lax-A-Daisy, until he finds out what happened to the last actor to do this.

Episode 4 • Nov 09, 2013

Submission

Having recorded voice-overs for use on new navy submarine the 'Penetrator', Toast, who has a penchant for ladies in uniform, is delighted when Commander Scott-Gorham, the woman officer in charge, invites him to its launch. Together they overpower mad vice-commander Hopkinson-Finch, who claims that he was abducted by aliens who have programmed him to launch a nuclear strike on America and end up with a date in the offing. This does not sit well with Steven's current girlfriend Portia de Coogan, daughter of Defence Minister Lord Fotheringham but then his lordship gets arrested at the launch for sexual offences from his days as a Radio One disc jockey.

Episode 5 • Nov 16, 2013

The End

Tired of voice-overs and the awful play Steven writes an erotic novel - as Paloma Toast - and new agent Brooke Hooberman secures a deal with publisher Yvonne Wryly to take it. Unfortunately it lacks an ending though when Steven devises one Yvonne derides it, whereupon life rather grotesquely mirrors art. At the same time Steven has sex with bar pick-up Kate Khan in the presence of her supposedly blind aunt but when he is approached to make a porn movie it turns out that the aunt was actually filming him with Kate. In the event neither of his alternative new careers come to fruition and he is back with Jane Plough and the awful play.

Episode 6 • Nov 23, 2013

Bonus Ball

After failing to become the screen's next James Bond Steven loses twenty thousand pounds to Andrew Lloyd Webber in a poker game and is pursued by Lloyd Webber's recovery man Michael Ball though finding time to dub a gay German porn film with Ray Purchase - not very well. Having escaped Purchase, who has caught him in bed with his wife again, Steven flees from Michael Ball, ending up on a stage in a small theatrical production where Purchase inadvertently saves him from Ball. Critics and audiences however love what they see and Steven is declared a hit at last.

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