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The Reluctant Landlord

British comedy television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ60747422 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Reluctant Landlord is a British sitcom created by Romesh Ranganathan. The series stars Romesh Ranganathan, Sian Gibson and Nick Helm. It premiered in the UK on 30 October 2018. A second and final series premiered on 4 September 2019.

Cast and characters

Romesh Ranganathan as Romesh

Sian Gibson as Natasha

Nick Helm as Lemon

Yasmine Akram as Julie

Marek Larwood as Lee

Ceyda Ali as Theresa

Alexander Molony as Charlie

Steve Edge as David Foster

Shaheen Khan as Jayanthi

Nigel Havers as Dr. Shepherd

Vicki Pepperdine as Head Teacher

Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Charlotte

Phil Davis as Dirty Harry

Alison Steadman as Debbie

Tim Key as Tommy

Filming

The series was filmed on location in Egham, Surrey. A real pub called The White Lion was used for the fictitious setting of The Seven Swans.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Reluctant Landlord” 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.