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Toast of London
2013 - 2015 7.4 (89 votes) 3 Seasons
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Genres
Comedy
Networks
Channel 4
Created By
Arthur Mathews
Matt Berry

Toast of London

Overview

Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

Key Crew

Writer: Arthur Mathews, Matt Berry

Director: Michael Cumming

Top Cast

Matt Berry
Matt Berry

Steven Toast

Robert Bathurst
Robert Bathurst

Ed Howzer-Black

Doon Mackichan
Doon Mackichan

Jane Plough

Harry Peacock
Harry Peacock

Ray Purchase

Tim Downie
Tim Downie

Danny Bear

Shazad Latif
Shazad Latif

Clem Fandango

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (2012)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Unspeakable Play
2012-08-20

Steven Toast has made a career faux pas by electing to star in a new controversial West End stage play. The play is considered so outrageous, that Toast is frequently attacked by appalled members of the British public. Recently divorced, Toast now stays with his friend Ed Howzer-Black and Ed's elderly mistress, the agoraphobic Goodhouse. Toast is asked to audition for long-running television series Summer Time Murders. However, the producer has been imprisoned for racial chanting on the set of his own production, so Toast has to audition for the part of a gay corrupt detective during prisoner's visiting time.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Phone Sex With Toast
2020-04-03

Toast lives out a Margaret Thatcher themed fantasy over the phone with Mrs Purchase.

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 3: The Plumber
2020-04-10

Steven has a problem with his latrine and desperately rings Gary the Plumber for help.

Runtime: 5 min
Episode 4: Double Decker
2020-04-17

Ed pops out to the shops and Toast asks for a Double Deckeeeeer. Whilst he's out, Toast is on the phone with Mrs. Purchase...

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 5: The Sonnet
2020-04-24

Toast joins other actors and reads a sonnet on Shakespeare’s Day.

Runtime: 5 min
Episode 6: The Wrong Number
2020-05-01

Toast calls a wrong number.

Runtime: 7 min
Episode 7: Making Toast

Behind the Scenes of Series 1.

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Episode 8: Series One Outtakes

Outtakes from the first series.

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Episode 9: Toast Autobiography

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Episode 10: Series Two Outtakes

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Episode 11: Steven Toast Voiceover Reel

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Episode 12: Series 3 Outtakes

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Episode 13: The Music of Toast

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Episode 14: Behind the Scenes of Series 3

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Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2013)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Addictive Personality
2013-10-20

Things are looking up for Steven. His agent Jane Plough gives him some exciting news: he's won a 'Best Actor' award from trendy Bra'z' Magazine. Toast is also getting more than a bit of attention from the ladies; celebrity journalist Susan Random and the beautiful, but slightly unhinged, Jemima Gina. Meanwhile Toast's flatmate Ed Howzer-Black has invited his old friend Kikini Bamalaam, the daughter of the Nigerian ambassador, to stay. Kikini is recovering from her latest botched cosmetic surgery and now closely resembles a very famous showbiz personality.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Afternoon Tea
2013-10-27

Toast's excitement at winning a part in a new play is tempered by two facts. One, his nemesis Ray Purchase is also in it. Two, there's a rumour his director, Acker Herron, has a history of murdering difficult actors. Romantically, Toast has to choose between his old RADA contemporary, the fun-loving and beautiful Greta Cargo and a prostitute...

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: Vanity Project
2013-11-03

Toast is caught in the middle of an acrimonious and expensive divorce so he needs to find a lot of cash, fast. Given two potential solutions; a starring role in a new feature film being made by a rich Arab billionaire or a laxative ad, he plumps for the former, despite the protestations of his agent, Jane Plough. But given the content of the movie, has Toast made the right decision?

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 4: Submission
2013-11-10

Toast's new girlfriend, the aristocratic Portia de Coogan, thinks it's about time Toast met her father, Lord Fotheringham. To make the best impression, it's vital Toast works on his non-existent sense of humour. Professionally, some voiceover work for the Royal Navy leads to a terrifying visit to the launch of their latest submarine - The Penetrator.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: The End
2013-11-17

Toast is fed up with his current jobs. With the help of a new agent, Brooke Hooberman, he tries his hand at a new career; an author of erotic literature. He also finds himself a glamorous new lady friend, Kate Khan, who would be perfect if she didn't have her deaf, dumb and blind aunt constantly in tow.

Runtime: 24 min
Episode 6: Bonus Ball
2013-11-24

After losing £20,000 to Andrew Lloyd Webber in a celebrity poker game, Toast finds himself being hunted by musical superstar and part-time theatre-land enforcer, Michael Ball. Needing cash quick, a desperate Toast agrees to dub some gay art house porn. When his nemesis, Ray Purchase, catches him in bed with his wife again, Toast is caught up in a life or death showdown with both Purchase and Ball on the stage of his appalling play... Meanwhile his agent, Jane Plough, thinks he may have won the role of James Bond, if he survives.

Runtime: 23 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2014)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Videos

TRAILER: Toast of London Series 2 | Monday, 10.35pm | Channel 4

Toast of London | Sunday, 10:40pm | (New) Comedy on 4

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