


Cast and characters Timeline Cast Members Eric and Beth therefore try and avoid their neighbours as much as possible so they can enjoy some peace and quiet in their own home. Beth is often taken advantage of by her neighbours, frequently having to make tea, pour drinks and prepare food, while the remaining characters chat in the living room. BBC Scotland describes the characters as "not so happily living together" – the neighbours are constantly visiting uninvited, and overstaying their welcome, at Beth and Eric Baird's house. They seem ok, but when you scratch the surface they're a bit nuts." Two Doors Down focuses on neighbours living side by side in a middle-class Glasgow suburb (differentiating it from many previous Glasgow-based sitcoms such as Rab C Nesbitt and Still Game which were set in gritty, run down areas of the city). The series creator, Simon Carlyle, stated: " Two Doors Down is about crazy neighbours. Two Doors Down won the Best Comedy award at the 2017 Royal Television Society Scotland Awards, with separate BAFTA Scotland wins for cast and crew over the course of its run. A seventh series will film in summer 2023 for broadcast in the autumn, alongside a move to BBC One. A fifth series announced in mid-2020 was delayed until the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and broadcast in two halves in December 2021 and July/August 2022, with a sixth series shown that November and December, its Christmas special airing on BBC One. A third series in 2018 (and a 2017 Christmas special) and a fourth in 2019 followed. Smith as neighbours in a suburban street in Scotland.įollowing a one-off Hogmanay special broadcast nationwide on BBC One in late 2013, a full series was commissioned, and began airing on BBC Two in April 2016, with a second that November. It was created by Simon Carlyle and Gregor Sharp, and stars Arabella Weir, Alex Norton, Doon Mackichan, Jonathan Watson and Elaine C. Two Doors Down is a Scottish television sitcom, produced by BBC Studios.
