Mark Benton
1) Early Doors
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
2) Catterick
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A bizarre and darkly comic series, Catterick is the story of two brothers, Carl and Chris, who have not seen each other for 15 years but who reunite to find Carl's estranged son. Their mission soon becomes a journey into hell when encounters with dodgy villains, a psychotic murderer, the police and a hotel proprietor missing a vital piece of his anatomy, mean that things do not go exactly to plan. What will the brothers find on their journey - love,...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare and grumpy Frank Hathaway return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery/comedy/drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. One might think the birthplace of William Shakespeare would be safe from fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft, and ransom, but they would be wrong.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From suspected ghosts to the torrid world of Shakespearian escorts, not to mention the fiendish passions and bitter rivalries of ballroom dancing, it's business as usual for the debt-laden ex-policeman and his much more credible partner-in-crime. And the pair also have demons of their own to wrestle with - Lu joins a slimming club and clashes with her sister, while Frank finds himself on the wrong side of the law accused of murder" --Container.