Candy Cabs S01E01

EastEnders star Jo Joyner stripped off for her new BBC comedy show Candy Cabs, reports today's Mail. We're not sure that it's something that Tanya Branning would approve of, writes Georgina Littlejohn, so it's just as well that the soap star was hundreds of miles away from Albert Square when she decided to get her kit off. The actress, who plays the long-suffering beautician in EastEnders, is starring in the new three-part comedy that started last night.

Of course, this being a Daily Mail story about a tame and sentimental primetime BBC One comedy-drama, things aren't quite as sensational as it sounds. Joyner, 33, stars as Jackie O'Sullivan, the boss of an all-female mini taxi company. The first episode began at a funeral – Shazza's funeral, according to the pink floral display spelling out her name in the hearse's window – creating a dark and engaging atmosphere that immediately dissipates, not long after they play Tom Jones's Sex Bomb at the cremation.


Shazza, we learn, was the would-be proprietor of Candy Cabs, until she died in the reduced bread section at Asda, expiring even before the bread did. Her two partners, Jackie and Elaine, decide to go on without her, taking delivery of the new fleet of pink cabs and hiring a load of women drivers. From then on the whole thing becomes terribly insubstantial. Candy Cabs has a company slimming club, which obliges the employees to spend rather more time in their underwear than you find in most cab offices.

In these scenes, Stella, played by former Bread star Melanie Hill, lines up the female employees - Amanda, played by Claire Sweeney, Sally-Anne, played by Danielle Henry, Big Pam, played by Lu Corfield and Diane, played by Jodie Prenger - for their weekly Fat Club weigh-in. Joyner, herself, contributes an unintentional boob flash courtesy of a reflection in a window and presumedly missed by the programme's production staff.

A lot of the humour, such as it is, comes from the use of northern turns of phrase that are either meant to strike you as quirkily novel or pleasingly familiar, depending on where you live. Saying: "Look what t'cat's peeled up" when someone walks into a room is not itself a joke, but you might still find it funny if you'd never heard it before.

Joyner filmed the series while on maternity leave from EastEnders last year and said that although she loves playing Tanya Branning, filming Candy Cabs was a breath of fresh air. Speaking to the Radio Times, she said: "It was lovely playing someone who wasn't constantly crying or doing 'the Walford sigh'. Going up north with a wonderful group of women was so much fun - as was working on something that is easy to watch for a change."

Television Series: Candy Cabs(S01E01)
Release Date: April 2011
Actress: Jo Joyner
Video Clips Credit: Lip










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