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Andy Millman is an actor with ambition and a script. Reduced to working as an extra with a useless agent, Andy's attempts to boost his career invariably end in failure and embarrassment.
- Metascore83
- 2005-2007
- 2 seasons
- HBO
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-MA
Andy Millman is an actor with ambition and a script. Reduced to working as an extra with a useless agent, Andy's attempts to boost his career invariably end in failure and embarrassment.
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Orlando Bloom
Mon, Jan 8, 2007 30 mins
Andy finally gets the chance to make his sitcom, but things aren't going his way. Meanwhile Maggie is an extra on an Orlando Bloom film.
Episode 2
David Bowie
Mon, Jan 15, 2007 30 mins
The critical response for When the Whistle Blows is entirely negative but Andy gets encouragement from the public as he is recognized in the street and in his local pub. However, he isn't eager to endlessly repeat his catchphrase from the show. Andy visits a celebrity bar, where he is briefly treated as a VIP. He tries to talk with David Bowie, who proceeds to make up a song ridiculing him, resulting in Andy returning to the pub to be surrounded by genuine fans.
Episode 3
Daniel Radcliffe
Mon, Jan 22, 2007 30 mins
First comes the success, then the backlash and the British press aren't about to change the rules. Andy has incurred their wrath and needs an experienced P.R. guru to help him. On the set of his new film, Daniel Radcliffe is trying his staggeringly poor chat-up lines on anything female.
Episode 4
Chris Martin
Mon, Jan 29, 2007 30 mins
Andy encounters Coldplay's Chris Martin while recording an ad for charity and reluctantly agrees to have him do a cameo on 'When the Whistle Blows'. When his show is nominated for a Bafta Award, everything that could possibly go wrong for Andy during the night of the ceremony does.
Episode 5
Sir Ian McKellen
Mon, Feb 5, 2007 30 mins
With the critical reaction to his sitcom getting more scathing, Andy is desperate for any role to show his credibility. He is recommended to Ian McKellen, and is cast in a play about a homosexual relationship. With his school friends coming to the first night, and McKellen's sudden decision that Andy should kiss another man in the play, he feels increasingly uncomfortable to the point of leaving the play midway through the first performance. Darren asks Maggie on a date, which comes to an awkward conclusion.
Episode 6
Jonathan Ross
Mon, Feb 12, 2007 30 mins
Andy becomes fast friends with Jonathan Ross after making his first chat show appearance. The mother of an ill fan forces him to come and visit her boy at the hospital, so Andy takes Maggie along. Darren is given an ultimatum: arrange a meeting with Robert De Niro or get fired.
Episode 7
The Extra Special Series Finale
Sun, Dec 16, 2007 84 mins
Andy is unhappy with the fame he has achieved. When a new agent approaches him, Andy fires Darren and quits 'When The Whistle Blows'. Meanwhile, Maggie has hit rock bottom, having given up working as an extra and living in a tiny, dismal flat. Andy however is too self obsessed to notice Maggie's plight.
