High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Friday Night Dinner is a British television sitcom written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused around the regular dinner experience of an English Jewish family (the Goodmans) on each Friday night. The first series aired from February 2011 on Channel 4. The series began airing in the U.S. on BBC America as of 30 July 2011. The series began airing in Russia on 2x2 on 10 August 2012.