After You've Gone - Season 1 - Eps 5: School Of Hard Knocks
When Alex's teacher writes home to say that "Alex is possibly gifted but we'll never know because he has the attention span of a gnat," Jimmy, surprised by this comment about his son, latches onto the "gifted" part while Diana's focus is on Alex's "not living up to his pontential". molly is delighted that alex is given all this attention which gives her the change to fly under the radar and do what she wants for a while.
About After You've Gone

Title: After You've Gone
First Air Date: 2007-01-12
Last Air Date: 2008-12-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 5.1/10 (from 10 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 25
Network: BBC One
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Rude Boy Productions, BBC
Synopsis
After You've Gone was a British comedy that aired on BBC One from 12 January 2007 to 21 December 2008. Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Dani Harmer and Ryan Sampson, After You've Gone was created by Fred Barron, who also created My Family. The writers include Barron, Ian Brown, Katie Douglas, James Hendie, Danny Robins, Andrea Solomons and Dan Tetsell. Three series and two Christmas specials aired, and work on scripts for a fourth series had already begun when the BBC withdrew the commission in November 2008 and cancelled the series.
Cast

Nicholas Lyndhurst
Jimmy

Celia Imrie
Diana

Dani Harmer
Molly Venables

Ryan Sampson
Alex

Lee Oakes
Kev

Amanda Abbington
Siobhan Casey

Vincent Ebrahim
Bobby