Jonathan Gershfield

A comedy about ordinary people with unique dilemmas. How far will they go? Will the cocktail of desperation, friendship, loneliness, love and even a brush with cannibalism derail their intent?

A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.

Set in the town of Hebburn in Tyne and Wear, this series follows the Pearson family, Joe, Pauline and their son Jack, who has secretly married a middle-class Jewish girl, Sarah, on a drunken binge in Las Vegas.