Love Soup - Season 1 (2005)

Alice finds that putting her flat on the market is fraught with more problems than she imagined ... and when she recruits the help of a tall, handsome stranger events take a very unexpected turn. Meanwhile, American writer Gil, cannot believe the chaos he has caused with a stray remark to his neighbours ... will his promising relationship with an attractive TV producer go any smoother?

It's Alice's birthday and her star chart, she is reliably informed, means the time is right to meet her perfect partner. So when her colleagues arrange a sure-fire date for her, what can possibly go wrong? Elsewhere, Gil is struggling to write the script for Love Soup and his efforts are hampered by several distractions, including his naked neighbour Irene at her bathroom window, a nightmare dinner party, and the amorous intentions of a beautiful narcoleptic. If that wasn't bad enough, he also has the wrath of God to contend with. Meanwhile, Alice receives an obscene ...

Alice is "quaking in her boots" at the prospect of addressing a hall full of delegates at her company's sales conference, while Gil finds himself with the dubious honour of officiating at the opening of his neighbour, Irene's (Trudie Styler), new heated swimming pool. It's bad enough that Alice has to share a hotel room with the gorgeous Rochelle - a junior account manager and part-time model with "the personality of a pencil and a body you would kill for". But then there's the added horror of a sexual encounter from 10 years earlier coming back to haunt her in a very...