S01E01 Episode 1
One mother (April) and three children with three different dads. It's Jake's 16th birthday, but none of the dads show up for it, April's friend Taneshia says that she's too honest and should try and...
Being April
S01E03: Normal
April's eldest, Jake, wants the family to be 'normal' so she tries her best by inviting the posh parents of Jake's girlfiend Martha over for afternoon tea. She also asks Callum to move in with her and the children. Callum's very ‘house-trained', but the intimacy stops when he moves in. After trying to be every possible kind of woman he may want - from sophisticated to outright slutty - April discovers that the real problem is that Callum's inhibited by the children being in the house. He has to move out. Afternoon tea is a disaster and later seeing the Easton-Ellis' at Jake's school concert doesn't help. April over hears them speaking abbout how awful her and her family are. With all the family there, including Callum, and Jake's proud of his mother when she retaliates. Callum and April try again, but she realises that he wants a family, not a girlfriend, while all she wants is a man who's going to love her for herself.
Overview
Three kids. Three dads. One mum. Mum is April (Pauline Quirke), a 39-year-old single mother living in Leicester, who has had three children by three different fathers. Richard (Victor McGuire), her husband since she was 18, is a plumber who still adores her. They separated years ago but never got round to a divorce. Eddie (Nicholas Gleaves) is a barman, with whom she had a fling nine years ago until, a week after moving in with him, she discovered they were both looking for Mr Right. Sunil (Nitin Ganatra) followed, sexy, young and rich.
Episodes
S01E02 Rules
April is learning to drive and the three dads are all trying to teach her. But as April tries her best behind the wheel she starts to examine her relationship with Richard, Eddie and Sunil....
S01E03 Normal
April's eldest, Jake, wants the family to be 'normal' so she tries her best by inviting the posh parents of Jake's girlfiend Martha over for afternoon tea. She also asks Callum to move in with...
S01E04 Growing Pains
Lily plays her last football match with the under 11's, but like her dad Eddie, she hates growing up. April, on the other hand, needs change, a new challenge and the promption at work In...
S01E05 Jealousy
Ty is becoming critical of April, comparing her cooking and shopping to his grandmother's. He also wants his own room and decides he wants to live in Sunil and Nikshita's big house. April's surprised by...
S01E06 Moving On
April's divorce with Richard comes through but to her surprise she doesn't feel delighted. It's the day of the big corporate that she and Taneshia have spent weeks organising. But all the arrangements fall through....
Cast
Pauline Quirke
Clive Russell
Nitin Ganatra
Victor McGuire
Ian Reddington
Amita Dhiri
Nicholas Gleaves
Jade Williams
Rakie Ayola
Souad Faress
Matthew Lockwood
Jake
