Jimmy McGovern's written a comedy! About miners! He has? Yes! And it's really funny!
What's his back story? A stammerer when young, McGovern used to observe his family, particularly his parents. And he suggests that as a big port, Liverpool has a lot of travellers that make the Scousers an inquisitive bunch. And as to why he goes for these big dark subjects, it's because he knows he can write them - give him a Dr. Who commission and he'd be completely at sea. It's injustice that he writes about - starting from Hillsborough. He left Brookside because they refused to do a Hillsborough story line and 'I went into Cracker with such anger. I always say the thing about Cracker is it's post-Hillsborough, that was the key thing for me. The way contempt for a huge sector of humanity could lead to something like that.' (Source: Paul du Noyer.)
Bobby Schofield is fantastic as a child abuser who must face up to his behaviour with the help of nun Anna Maxwell Martin. His extended family is father David Threlfall and sister Anna Friel, her children the unspeaking Austin Haynes and Finn McParland, and the other abuser is Mark Womack. With Jonas Armstrong and John May (probation officer).
It was good, though. Kept making me think of Bay A.
The actor-turned-director is Julia Ford (Showtrial).
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