Gates

About Gates

Gates is a British comedy television series shown on Sky Living. The series of 5 episodes ran from 14 August to 11 September 2012.

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Gates is a British comedy television series shown on Sky Living. The series of 5 episodes ran from 14 August to 11 September 2012.

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Plot

Helen and Mark Pearson (Joanna Page and Tom Ellis) enroll their daughter, Chloe (Mari Ann Bull), in the Parkview Primary School and hijinks ensue as they try to fit in with the other parents at the school gates whilst dropping her off and picking her up from school.

Cast

Joanna Page as Helen Pearson, an estate agent

Tom Ellis as Mark Pearson, a builder

Catherine Shepherd as Sarah Howells, a housewife

Sue Johnston as Miss Hunter, Chloe’s teacher

Tony Gardner as Aiden Howells, a workaholic dad

Nick Mohammed as Ciaran, a male nanny

Toby Wharton as Mickey

Nadine Marshall as Melissa, a hairdresser

Ella Kenion as Mia, a rep at the school

William Andrews as Mr. Gould, the headteacher of the school

Mari Ann Bull as Chloe Pearson, Helen and Mark’s daughter

DVD

Gates was released on DVD on 17 September 2012.

International broadcast

In Australia, the series premiered on BBC First on 4 May 2015.

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Notable quotes

“God never shuts one door without opening another.”
— Anonymous Irish proverb, quoted in The Search for God (1983) by David Manning White, p. 160
“There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.”
— Henry Ward Beecher , As quoted in Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887) by J.T. Lloyd, p. 261
“A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.”
— Leo Buscaglia, in interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
“When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure. Not for nothing did God give the keys into St. Peter's keeping, for Peter stands for knowledge, and knowledge is the key that unlocks the door, presses forward and breaks in, to discover God as he is.”
— Meister Eckhart, in Sermon 9, as translated in The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Ch. 9 : The German Mystics, p. 448
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller We Bereaved (1929)
“knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror " - Written Summer 1928; first published in Weird Tales, 13, No. 4, (April 1929).

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