Ended

Psychobitches

Created by: Jeremy Dyson

6.8 12

2013

30m

2 seasons

Comedy

Psychobitches is a British sketch comedy programme created by Jeremy Dyson for Sky One Arts. Rebecca Front stars as The Therapist, who holds sessions with famous historical and spiritual women, exploring their psychological issues via anachronistic humour, with such individuals like Mary Magdalene, Bonnie Parker, and Lucille Ball appearing in contemporary settings. Blending historical figures with modern comedy, it features a cast of well-known British talent in a variety of roles as the iconic women.

Seasons

Cast

Carmen Miranda / Anna Sewell, Eve, Virginia Woolf / Cleopatra, Simone de Beauvoir, P.L. Travers / Lucrezia Borgia, Eva Perón, Unity Mitford / Tammy Wynette, Boudica, Leni Riefenstahl / Madame de Pompadour, Bonnie Parker / Grace Kelly

Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Castle, Audrey Hepburn, Jessica Mitford / Betty, Lucille Ball / Janet Leigh / Amelia Earhart, Jackie Kennedy / Queen Victoria, Liz Taylor / Golda Meir, Marilyn Monroe / Mary, mother of Jesus, Barbara Stanwyck, Gracie Fields

Thora Hind, Catherine the Great, Barbara Cartland, Bette Davis, Doris Stokes, St Catherine, Elizabeth I, Josephine-Joseph, Whistler's Mother

Emily Brontë, Medusa, Mary Shelley, Jacqueline du Pre, Isadora Duncan / Georgia O'Keeffe / Medusa, Gertrude Jekyll, Diana Dors

Selina Griffiths

Charlotte Brontë, Marie Antoinette, Marie Curie / Amalia Freud, Beatrix Potter, Amy Johnson, Marie Stopes

Florence Nightingale, Wallis Simpson, Hildegard von Bingen, Ingrid Bergman, Mary, Queen of Scots / Mrs Thatcher, Mary, Queen of Scots

Sylvia Plath, Joy Adamson, Helen of Troy / Helen Keller, Mary Pickford, Enid Blyton

Dustin Demri-Burns

Keppel, Lady Godiva / Pandora, Coco Chanel (uncredited), Horror, Nora Ephron

Shirley Temple, Betty Ford, , Margot Fonteyn

Morgana Robinson

Bo Peep, Mary Magdalene, Daphne du Maurier, Anna Nicole Smith / Venus

Anne Brontë, Anne Frank

Maria Von Trapp, Diana Spencer, Sleeping Beauty's Prince

Alarm / Fanny Craddock, Anne Boleyn, Janis Joplin / Wilson

Statue of Liberty, Delilah, Catherine Howard

Sharon D. Clarke

Bessie Smith, Nina Simone

Reece Shearsmith

Princess Margaret, Old Mother Shipton

The Queen Mother, Mona Lisa

Albert DeSalvo, Prince Albert

Witch of Wookey Hole, Jesus

Eartha Kitt, Cleopatra

Dread, Miss Muffet

Llewella Gideon

Steve Pemberton

Laura Jean Marsh

Barbara Woodhouse

Emmeline Pankhurst

'Mrs' Alfred Hitchcock

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sleeping Beauty

Martha Howe-Douglas

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Miranda Richardson

Richard E. Grant

Matthew Hopkins

The Goddess Kali

Branwell Brontë (uncredited)