Freezing is a BBC comedy series starring Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern about an otherwise successful couple in their forties who find themselves out of work.

Synopsis

Matt (Bonneville) is a publisher who has recently lost his job and Elizabeth (McGovern) is an Oscar-nominated American actress who is having a hard time getting work since moving to live with Matt in London.

Freezing was originally a one-off comedy as part of BBC Four's Tight Spot season in February 2007,^[1] which then became the first episode of the series when it aired on BBC Two in February 2008.^[2]

Freezing is written by James Wood and directed by Simon Curtis.^[3]

Cast

• Hugh Bonneville as Matt
• Elizabeth McGovern as Elizabeth
• Tom Hollander as Leon Blakely
• Ben Miles as Stephen Marshall
• Rebecca Gethings as Kim
• Tim McInnerny as Bamber Jones
• Ruth Wilson as Alison Fennel
• Tom Riley as Dave Beethoven
• Lucinda Raikes as Gloria

Trivia

• Elizabeth McGovern is herself an Oscar-nominated actress who moved to London to live with her husband, Simon Curtis.
• From 2010 to 2015, McGovern and Bonneville worked together again, co-starring in the successful period drama series Downton Abbey as Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl and Countess of Grantham.