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It Was Panning
3.1
Series
Episode
1
Airdate
26 December 2012
Ratings
11.45 Million
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Centric character(s)
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Ratings
11.45 Million
Recurring Characters
Bo Poraj - Michael Jaffrey (News Reporter)
Supporting Characters
Emma Kennedy - Sue Perb

Jason Watkins - Dick Twist
Caroline Newman - Zumba Instructor
Edward Bennett - New Boss
Lizzie Stables - Emma (Office Girl 1)
Taj Atwal - Emma (Office Girl)

Graham Bohea - Messenger
Vicki Pepperdine - Eaters Anonymous Group Leader
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It Was Panning is the first episode of Series 3. It was broadcast on Wednesday 26 December 2012, at 9pm.

Synopsis[]

Penny is threatening to cancel Miranda’s Christmas if she doesn’t do something worthy of inclusion in a Christmas news letter. Among other things, she forces her daughter on a detox and go to Eaters Anonymous.

Stevie has a new executive assistant job and Miranda tries to do an office job as well, but it all proves too much.

Meanwhile, are Gary and Miranda have agreed to be friends, but are they able to just be friends without going over the brink?

Plot[]

After the events of the previous season, Gary and Miranda have mended their friendship, and have agreed to remain just friends, but it proves difficult for them both, when it becomes clear that they still hover on the brink of something more. Tilly and Stevie even point that they were on the brink of a kiss more than once. They agree there should be "no brinking." The group settles down for some cake and telly when a local news report on obesity closes with a pan across a woman in the park - Miranda.

Meanwhile, the joke shop has suffered a massive setback and has closed, so after being inspired by Stevie and Tilly, Miranda gets a job in an office. The office world is entirely beyond her ability to understand. It bores her utterly, and she cracks in less than a day, marching out to get her joke shop back. Her meeting with loan officer Dick Twist ends with an ultimatum; come up with a business manager and a comprehensive business model, or face foreclosure in three days time. She advertises for a shop manager, and only one applicant replies; Patricia Nelson.

Penny tries to help Miranda get her life under control and she makes her daughter join a weight loss class which ends in total havoc and Miranda escaping with Stevie who is hiding from Tilly and her new hobby crusade.

When Miranda meets her applicant it turns out to be Stevie, and in character, Stevie accepts the job of shop manager.

When Miranda and Stevie run across the local newsman, Mike Jackford, (Bo Poraj), who had done the obesity report, Miranda asks if she had been included because they thought her obese, he said they had simply been panning away and she was lovely.

Quotes[]

Miranda: Are you feeling on the brink?
Gary: Maybe a bit brinky, yeah.
Miranda: We must be brinkless, Gary.
Gary: Sorry, no brinking. It's just you were cutely vulnerable.
Miranda: And your teaching was manly and dominant.
Both: On the brink!
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Sue: Susan Perb. Call me Sue.
Miranda: Sue Perb?
Sue: Yes.
Miranda: Sue Perb? How is that not funny?


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Miranda: Mr News Reporter? Sorry to bother you. I've got a really important question about your obesity report. You see, I was in it at the end. Does that mean that I was part of it?
Mike: Oh, poor you. No, no, we wouldn't do that. No, we were panning across. No, I mean you're...you're lovely.
Miranda: Oh, gosh. Really? Thanks. Stop it. Really? Stop it. Lovely? Really? Stop it. Really? Stop it. Really? Stop it. Lovely? Really?

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