 Wood used a regular ensemble of actors in the series, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston, with Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge doing weekly spots.Julie Walters was a long term collaborator of Wood's, although unlike "Wood and Walters", their previous television series together, only Wood's name remained in the title.This was because in the interim, Wood was getting viewers of it turning up to her solo stand up shows expecting to see a double act.