Daily Record (Glasgow), 19 February 2002.
"Fun with a midlife crisis" (Pick of the Box).
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*Manchild*, BBC2, 10.00 pm.

Hands up everyone who knows a bloke who - once he reached 
the milestone of 40 - grew a ponytail, bought a motorbike 
and ditched his wife?

Mmm, just about everyone then. So we'll all be laughing and 
groaning in alternate measures at *Manchild*, the new 
comedy-drama about four forty-something males.

It's a sort of *Sex and the City* for menopausal men and its 
star Nigel Havers even does a Carrie-style voiceover to 
explain what's going on.

Like that show, *Manchild* has more than its fair share of 
fruity language and sexual shenanigans.

Havers plays Terry, the vain, bike-riding hero or villain of 
the piece. He's got an ex-wife, grown kids, a new motorbike 
and an irresistible urge to become a babe magnet.

He has three cohorts attempting to get over the same growing 
old pains - James (*Buffy*'s Anthony Head), Patrick (Don 
Warrington of *Rising Damp* fame) and Gary (Ray Burdis).

Gary, unlike the others, is still married, albeit 
relunctantly to the shrewish Cheryl (former *EastEnders*' 
star Lindsay Coulson).

Tonight James, who is a dentist, suffers an embarrassing 
climax to his date with a model.



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