Liza Tarbuck ( /ˈliːzə/ LEE-zə; born 21 November 1964) is an English actress, television and radio presenter, and daughter of comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.

She trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA graduating in 1986 alongside Clive Owen, Rebecca Pidgeon, Serena Harragin and Mark Womack

Her first big break came in the late 1980s with a starring role in the long-running Granada Television comedy series Watching, in which she played a character called Pamela, opposite Emma Wray. Tarbuck then appeared as Angie in the 1988 Falklands War drama Tumbledown, which also starred Colin Firth, Paul Rhys and David Calder. In 2001, she took the title role in Linda Green, which ran for two series, ending in 2002.

In more recent times, she has guest starred on the Ricky Gervais comedy Extras, and has appeared in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as DI Fiona Knight. In 2004, Tarbuck appeared in Series 6 of the long-running BBC One comedy, French & Saunders, as a fictionalized version of herself, where she had the role of Producer for "Saunders & French Productions". In 2005, Tarbuck appeared as Mrs. Jellyby in the BBC One Serial Bleak House. And in 2006, She appeared in episode six of the sitcom, Saxondale, as a full-figured rock chick.

Emma Wray (born Gillian Elizabeth Wray, 22 March 1965 in Birkenhead) is an English former actress. She attended the Merseyside Council funded "Glenda Jackson Theatre" whilst still at Birkenhead Park High school, went on to study Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama from 1983–6, and was given her first leading TV role two months after receiving her BA.

She is best known for starring as 'Brenda Wilson' in the Granada Television sitcom Watching between 1987 and 1993, for which she also sang the theme tune What Does He See In Me? She also played a major role in Yorkshire Television's Stay Lucky with Dennis Waterman, Jan Francis, Ian McNeice, Susan George and Niall Toibin throughout the same period, along with lead roles in many TV series such as Boon and Minder, and TV films including Defrosting the Fridge. After several years away from television, she returned to primetime TV with the lead role in the drama comedy My Wonderful Life with co-stars Philip Glenister and Tony Robinson created by Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye, the pilot called True Love aired in 1996 and then ran for another three seasons from 1997 to 1999.

Paul Bown (born 11 October 1957 in Fenton, Staffordshire) is an English actor. He is best known as one of the leading roles of the Granada Television comedy Watching (1987–93). Bown has also appeared in various plays and shows, including an advert for Toffee Crisp in the 1980s and more recently as Philip Reid in BBC's Holby City. Paul also appeared in November 2007 in acclaimed British drama Britz. He also appeared in the first episode of Mr.Bean as "The Student". He was in an episode of New Tricks on 25 August 2008.

He also starred as an AA Patrolman is the BBC television series "The Last Salute" in the late 1990s.

In 2009 he appeared briefly as Mike Bamber, chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club in the Brian Clough bio-pic "The Damned United". In the 2010 Christmas Special of "My Family", he played a grand father of a Mary, a young girl, who Ben met whilst filling in for Father Christmas.

Patsy Byrne (born 13 July 1933 in Ashford, Kent) is an English actress.

She was educated at Ashford School for Girls, and attended the school around the same time as Lorna Fendall, and Joanna Brough, daughter of Arthur Brough. After that she studied drama at the Rose Bruford School before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Patsy is famous for playing round, jolly, often slightly insane old women. Probably the most famous of these is Nursie in the popular BBC sitcom Blackadder II. She once again starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She also starred as Betty the Tea Lady in the BBC children's programme Playdays.

She is also famous for being able to do the splits well into her 60s, which she showed off when she played Malcolm's domineering mother in Watching.

Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano. Much of her humour is grounded in everyday life, and includes references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She is noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes.

She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comedians. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently works with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie.