At Home with the Braithwaites

At Home with the Braithwaites

2000
★★★☆☆ 6.4/10
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 26 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 48 min/episode
ComedyDrama
At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery. It was broadcast on ITV, for 26 episodes, from 20 January 2000 to 9 April 2003. At the beginning of the first series, each member of the Braithwaite family has an issue. Alison has to decide what to do with the winnings, and when to tell her family. David is having an affair with Elaine, his secretary at work. Virginia is on the verge of flunking out of university. Sarah has a crush on her drama teacher. Charlotte suspects that her mother may be the mystery lottery winner.

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Seasons

Season 1
2000 • 6 Episodes
On her 40th birthday Alison Braithwaite, is given a ticket for the first ever Euro-lottery, by her youngest daughter Charlotte. Alison wins the jackpot worth £38 million pounds, she decides to use the money for worthwhile causes, but will she tell her family about the win.
Season 2
2001 • 8 Episodes
Alison Braithwaite's lottery win is no longer a secret and the family have left the suburbs behind to live in a mansion in the country.
Season 3
2002 • 6 Episodes
Alison is awarded a dame-hood by the Queen for her charity work but her joy is short lived when she discovers that she is pregnant. David is delighted by this but is unaware that the baby is actually his brother Graham's.
Season 4
2003 • 6 Episodes
Virginia is living with Megan at university, and she and Alison are not talking to each other. Sarah is back at school doing her A-levels and living with Daniel and Charlotte is cross with her mother for not patching things up with Virginia.

Network

ITV1

Keywords

englandlotterynorthern englandgreedmarriage crisisyorkshiredysfunctional familywealthmillionairegold digger