A new comedy from the UK’s Channel Five is set, of all places, in a suburban British brothel. The television show, which is called Respectable and begins in a couple of weeks, is centered around four female prostitute characters.
Kira Cochrane’s recent article in The Guardian described the four characters on the show. “There's Maureen, the ageing madame, who offers such comedy lines as ‘less gabble, more gobble.’ There's Kate, the brainy one, who is working in the sex trade to pay off her student loans, and Hayley, the extremely thick one who is working as a prostitute to pay for her shoe collection. Then there's Yelena, the haughty, though permanently willing Serbian, who struts around like Ivana Humpalot in the Austin Powers films, throwing out immortal lines such as, ‘Men are like cashpoints with cocks. I milk them and then I buy beautiful things.’
And all of them, continues Cohrane, including Maureen, walk around almost constantly in their underwear.
