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So What Now?

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7549599 ↗
Source-derived summary

So What Now? is a British television sitcom which aired on BBC One. It stars and created by Lee Evans, who also wrote the show with Stuart Silver and Peter Tilbury. The series was broadcast from 26 March 2001 to 22 May 2001. BBC announced that So What Now was cancelled after the first series.

Plot

The series centres on Lee sharing a house with his slobbish best friend and their neurotic landlady.

Cast and characters

Main

Lee Evans, as himself, a barely employed musician and everything he touches seems to turn to disaster. He does write tunes for mobile phone ringtones and has a son, Lucas, with his now estranged wife, Eileen.

Steven O'Donnell as Stuart Ponder, Lee's slobbish and disorganised best friend. He allows Lee to stay in his flat against his better judgement and soon regrets his decision.

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The public source identifies “So What Now?” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around What, television and series.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with What, television and series providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “So What Now?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.