Toast of London
Steven Toast is a veteran English actor but is currently struggling to land roles. This leads to him making some questionable decisions. He's even doing voice-over work. He seems to spend more time dealing with personal issues than acting. One recurring problem is his nemesis and fellow actor, Ray Purchase.
- 2012-2020
- 3 seasons
- IFC
- Comedy, Music
- TV-MA
Steven Toast is a veteran English actor but is currently struggling to land roles. This leads to him making some questionable decisions. He's even doing voice-over work. He seems to spend more time dealing with personal issues than acting. One recurring problem is his nemesis and fellow actor, Ray Purchase.
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
Over the Moon
23 mins
After disclosing in a television interview that the moon landing was a fake directed by Stanley Kubrick Steven is shadowed by a CIA gunman. Things get worse as he is sacked from his voice-over work and, racked by nerves during a live streaming of 'Macbeth' he chains himself to a pillar throughout his title performance though this is hailed critically as a brave interpretation. And, with the CIA still in pursuit, he has reason to be glad he got fired.
Episode 2
Beauty Calls
23 mins
Steven is introduced to Clancy Moped, a TV weather girl who is passionate about weather and feminism. She actually falls in love with him but the romance ends abruptly when she and other feminists invade a beauty contest Steven is judging. There is little comfort back at the flat due to new house-mate Peter Davison and his foul-mouthed girlfriend who insist on making their own wine.
Episode 3
Hamm on Toast
23 mins
After falling downstairs a severely concussed Steven becomes smitten with visiting American actor Jon Hamm, ignoring the adoring starlet Pooky Hook. Steven even takes Hamm to visit his dying father Colonel Gonville Toast who is about to announce his beneficiaries, though there is something of an upset before Steven regains his old self.
Episode 4
Bob a Job
23 mins
Believing that it could lead to a Hollywood career Steven reluctantly agrees to do the Royal Variety Show, hosted by Bob Monkhouse - who is not dead but has a zombie wife and whose jokes Steven fails to understand. Steven's rendition of the Sand Dance partnered by Ray Purchase is a hit but chances of Hollywood success disappear due to an unsuitable gift for the Prince of Wales, not to mention being responsible for killing Bob Monkhouse.
Episode 5
Man of Sex
23 mins
When veteran actor Ormond Sacker's drinking forces him to drop out of the play 'Man of Sex' Steven is dismayed that Ray Purchase's albino twin Bill takes over the role as Bill is forever playing cruel pranks on Steven onstage and, were it not for Steven's new girlfriend, percussionist Varrity Mapp, and her expertise at drumming, one of them could have killed him. Nor does the publication of ex-wife Ellen's autobiography aid his speedy recovery.
Episode 6
Global Warming
23 mins
Annoyed never to have played at the Globe Theatre Steven hesitantly agrees to perform in the controversial director Daz Klondyke's revolutionary new production of 'Twelfth Night' alongside the non-professional Kai and a cast of dogs. On opening night the dogs have yet to learn their lines and Klondyke foresees disaster. Fortunately Steven has a solution, since much of the Globe is made of wood. Unfortunately the acting community condemns this show of vandalism and, after being fined by the P.C. police, there is nothing left for Steven professionally except to join Ed in his latest porn film.
