Watch Series: Let Them Eat Cake Released in (1999) - Season 1 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Comedy, and content rating 30min with duration 30 min broadcasted as these networks BBC One, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Christine Gernon, Peter Learmouth. Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders set in France, 1782, just seven years before the French Revolution. It is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves. - Season 1