Coming Up

Coming Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers.

The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".

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Status	Ended
Original Name	Coming Up
First Air Date	August 20, 2003
Last Air Date	August 12, 2013
Seasons	11
Episodes	80
Episode Runtime	27min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom
Production Companies	Ideal World Productions Touchpaper Television Channel 4 Television
Networks	Channel 4

S11E07

Sink or Swim

Cynthia was once part of a medal-winning synchronized swimming team. Now she is elderly and, following a stroke, immobile, social worker Susan feeling she should go into a home. Cynthia's carer and grand-daughter, school-girl Ellie resists and, helped by her friend Cassia, they escape and move Cynthia into a deserted flat. However the old lady takes a turn for the worst, leaving the girls to try and recreate her former glory at the local swimming bath.

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